Talk:Train World

Not the Oldest Surviving Railway Station
I have removed the claim that the buildings of Schaarbeek railway station are the "oldest surviving" in Belgium. The present station building was built in 1887 to an "eclectic" design favored at the time, and it certainly is among the best preserved and most representative station buildings of that style, of which Leuven (built 1875), Vilvoorde (1882), and Soignies (1891) are other surviving examples, and perhaps it might be worth pointing this out in suitable wording. As far as age goes, however, the station building at Schaarbeek is predated by other station buildings in the "neoclassicist" style favored previously, of which Tienen (arguably the oldest, from 1841), Wetteren (1848), and Lier (1861) are still extant representatives. Nude Amazon (talk) 01:12, 4 March 2018 (UTC)