Welcome c",)

Started test building on Antwerpen Centraal Station few months ago.
Recently continued on it and looking forward to finish it :)
Will update pictures as the progress goes.

Project is on hold.

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Antwerpen Centraal Station

The original station building was constructed between 1895 and 1905
as a replacement for the original terminus of the Brussels-Mechelen-Antwerp Railway.
The stone clad terminus buildings,
with a vast dome above the waiting room hall were designed by Louis Delacenserie
and the vast (185 metres long and 44 metres high) iron and glass trainshed by Clement van Bogaert.
The viaduct into the station is also a notable structure designed by local architect Jan Van Asperen.

The station is now widely regarded as the finest example of railway architecture
in Belgium although the extraordinary eclecticism of the influences on Delacenserie's design
had led to a difficulty in assigning it to a particular architectural style.
In W. G. Sebald's novel Austerlitz an ability to appreciate the full range of the styles that might have
influenced Delacensiere is used to demonstrate the brilliance of the
fictional architectural historian who is the novel's protagonist.

In 2009 the American magazine Newsweek judged Antwerpen-Centraal the world's fourth greatest train station.
In 2014 the British-American magazine Mashable awarded Antwerpen-Centraal the first place for the most
beautiful railway station in the world.


The station has four levels and 14 tracks arranged as follows:

• Level +1: The original station, 6 terminating tracks, arranged as two groups of three and separated by a central opening allowing views of the lower levels.
  
• Level 0: Houses ticketing facilities and commercial space.
  
• Level −1: 7 m below street level, 4 terminating tracks, arranged in two pairs, also featuring the world-famous twin level escalators that start off at a gradient, then become level, then resume a gradient again.
  
• Level −2: 18 m below street level, 4 through tracks, leading to the two tracks of the tunnel under the city (used by high-speed trains and fast domestic InterCity services).
  

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