European Railroad Discussion > Rosnava, Slovakia

The freight I was hoping to see hasn't shown, and the next passenger train isn't for 90 minutes so here are some pictures of the 1970s station building it what I dubbed (ironically) the Totalitarian Revival school of architecture. Difficult to describe, but very obvious when you come across it.

It only caters for a handful of trains a day and yet would not look out of place in a city. Needless to say, nothing much disturbed the peace, just the birdsong.

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Not that bad looking of a station really. I'd put it somewhere between the now torn down Amtrak Albany-Rensselaer station and London Euston.

Jim

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It's not so much the looks, more the in-appropriateness of the building in that location. Rosnava isn't a very big town, and the station is well out of town, 3 or 4 trains each way, depending on what day it is. My principal objection is that the building is styleless (as is Euston), with the added incongruity of painting-by-numbers 'art' adorning both the exterior and the ticket hall. Art which as far as I can see has no specific purpose and bears no obvious connection to Rosnava. But that's really a reflection on the totalitarian regime under which the structure was built.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/27/14 14:33 by 86235.

That Rosnava station looks alot like my old Jr. High School. Both were probably built in the 1960's.

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Well it's a bit better than this station at Augustin, Romania. Taken from the EuroNight Ister between Budapest and Bucharest.

https://flic.kr/s/aHsjN1zT9R

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'Totalitarian Revival' -
That is a moniker that needs to gain traction.
...Lorenzo