Railway stations essay

A railway station is a halting place for the trains. At present, railway station are quite common in India. There are a number of railway stations by the sides of the railways. But all the stations are not of equal size. Some are very small and some are very big. Some are of mediocre type. The big-sized stations are very small in number. They are situated generally at the railway junctions, the capital towns and the commercial centers. The special features of a big railway station are a row of buildings for the railway office room, waiting rooms,, police station, mail-service, restaurants, book-stalls, the railway platforms with sheds overhead, the railway over bridges, the railways bells and the railway signal posts. In the railway office buildings we see the stationmaster's office, the assistant stationmaster's office, the enquiry office, the office of the goods-clerk, the office of the booking clerk and the office of the time-keepers. In the booking office, there is a window through which the passengers purchase the tickets. In the railway station there are two grades of waiting rooms for the passengers. The upper class waiting-room is meant  for the upper class ticket holders. The lower class waiting room is meant for the lower class ticket-holders. The railway station holds a police-station inside it. The railway police personnel are there to check the crimes within a certain jurisdiction on the railways. The railway station provided the regular mail service which is known as R.M.S. The Railway restaurant provides meals and refreshments at the rates fixed by the Government. There are book-stalls in the railway station. The railway platform is made of chips and mortar. It is raised quite close to the door-still of the railway bodies. Hence, the passengers find it easy to get in and get down the train. In the big station, we find more than one platform. In New York there stands the biggest railway station of the world. This station holds as many as forty-seven railway-platforms. By kulsum ameen