Monumental Constructions: The Railway Station Giants of France | FD Engineering

[@justoliver77]

Love the design of the Bordeaux St-Jean station!

[@Sacto1654]

I'm surprised that glass structure was that old.

[@bytemosery4946]

The french, love them or hate them they have been important in all fields. 🇮🇹🤝🏾🇫🇷

[@francoisleyrat8659]

Much love to our Italian cousins!

[@TheRailwayDrone]

Excellent documentary. I visited Bordeaux St. Jean a few years ago and was equally impressed. I still have plans to visit Lyon St. Exupery and cannot wait to add that to my list of visited train stations around the world.

[@haadbajwa7565]

Nice historical documentary on French railway 🛤. French love their 🚉 trains and train 🚉 stations. 🎉

[@stevedrane2364]

Very interesting and inspiring. . Merci . .

[@XAVIERLOHSOONHEEMoe]

insane!

[@ravenseft]

French stations celebrate rail travel, something which has been forgotten in Britain. In the haste to make as much cash as possible, British stations like Euston crowd passengers into concourses with shops everywhere, and cram the platforms underground as the air rights have been sold off to build high rise monstrosities.

[@mdhazeldine]

Great video. I first got interested in station architecture when I studied 3D design about 20 years ago and bought a book with Exupery station on the front cover. I'd love to visit it some day, but I see that (as with most concrete buildings) it is starting to weather quite badly in some places, which is a shame. I guess it can be cleaned? I didn't know much about Bordeaux station, but it looks very impressive! Amazing how they built it with wooden scaffolding so long ago.

[@aoilpe]

I’ve visited the St.Exupéry Station when it was still new and called Satolas…the building sits there like a giant insect on the parking. I love the old Strasbourg Central Station but don’t like the new glas bubble.

[@ioanbota9397]

I like it

[@jeanjacques9980]

Hope the stations do not suffer from concrete cancer in the future? I tend to prefer the old traditional materials, but there again when the original stations were built they were a symbol of modernity utilising new methods of construction, what do I know.? Very interesting documentary, bravo.

[@Sacto1654]

I think that station in Lyon will likely get rebuilt in the next 35-40 years, if only to replace the old concrete structures.

[@jeanjacques9980]

@@Sacto1654 Strange to think that the Gare de Lyon constructed in 1847, probably will be still standing in a hundred years time, with maintenance. The concrete monstrosity might be demolished in less than 50 years. Remains an interesting documentary of statement architecture.

[@OmarGrajeola-ve4de]

The architecture is slim estructs low weight resistance air weather

[@rudivandoornegat2371]

I would like to see the video of how they pour concrete to create those odd shapes

[@tigersharkzh]

The patina on that concrete in Lyon is what archetects never understand. People don't like it.

[@mohammedothman5667]

Will the train tracks last 200years?

[@francoisleyrat8659]

The rails are regularly maintained or replaced.

[@benjaminlamey3591]

they hjave to be maintained very often and replace often, at least if you want to keep their ability to support high speed.

[@PistachioDean]

I’m sorry but im just not a fan of the glass shell over Strasbourg Station 😭

[@didiervuagnat2645]

Y'a pas de version française? Par hasard??

[@hlb6975]

En replay sur RMC DÉCOUVERTE 😉

[@ARBITRAGEandTIME]

Looks better than AMTRAK? 😂

[@pepechen]

It's astonishing that they still buy Calatrava's designs, which all suffer from massive cost overruns and engineering problems that often can't be solved. But above all, he copies himself, he has repeated the same designs over and over, so much so that he even repeats the same mistakes, like he did with his bridge in Bilbao and then in Venice again.

[@capiroussecapi5815]

Strasbourg became French again after the First World War, in 1918, not the Second.

[@chriscran2003]

But Alsace was reintegrated in the german reich during the 2nd wold war, so Strasbourg became french again again en 1945.

[@skyskysky2023]

These are all NOTHING compare to Chinese HSR Station 😆😂🤣