GREAT RAILWAY STATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 56, 30 October 1912, Page 2

GREAT RAILWAY STATION.

New York has scarcely got over boasting about that Pennsylvania Railroad Company’s vast station, covering 25 acres of land, but the city will soon have something even more comforting to its pride in big things. The Grand Central station, now in course of erection, will unquestionably be the largest railway terminal in the world. Moreover, it will occupy one of the most expensive sites obtainble, standing in the most central portion of New York city—namely, at 42nd street near Broadway and Fifth avenue. The total area which this gigantic structure will cover is 72 acres. Within the station will be 32 miles of tracks. There arc two track levels, one above the other, express trains using the upper and suburban trains the lower. It is from the Grand Central station that a very large proportion of New York’s daily suburban traffic is handled, two electric companies using it as a city terminal. Two hundred trains an hour, able to handle 70,000 passengers, will be operated. The yearly capacity of the station is computed to be 100,000,000 passengers. i