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Railway stations are magical. While their purpose has been to serve as facilitators of travel for hundreds of years, they have done much more than that.<\/p>\n

They have inspired millions of people to set off on long and arduous journeys to far-flung corners of the world, and have even inspired the arts, with countless authors romanticising the act of train travel.<\/p>\n

Things like industrialisation, transportation, and development wouldn’t have been possible without trains.<\/p>\n

They generated vast wealth for those who owned them, and soon, not only did railway stations serve as mere points from which to travel but as grand designs, beautiful hulks of buildings intended to catch the eye and embed a lasting impression on those arriving in them.<\/p>\n

Nowhere is this truer than at\u00a0Antwerp-Central Railway Station \u2014 the “Railway Cathedral” \u2014 where art and transport truly collide.<\/p>\n

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Antwerp’s first-ever railway station was the terminus of Brussels-Mechelen-Antwerp railway line, which was opened on June 3, 1836.<\/p>\n

It was made entirely of wood and was later replaced by a grander building on the opening of the new international connection to the Netherlands in 1854\u201355.<\/p>\n

People then likely thought it couldn’t get any better, but they were wrong. Just a few decades later, in 1905, Antwerp-Central Railway Station came into being.<\/p>\n

Started in 1895, it was designed by architect Louis Delacenserie who was inspired, among other things, by the Pantheon in Rome.<\/p>\n

Today, steelwork covers the platform and combines with stone masonry to create an eclectic style that truly straddles the ages.<\/p>\n

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