On 2/2/09 14:13, in article l,
"Chris Johns" wrote:

I think it's somehting like "Pur-kip-see".

I didn't get off the train at Newark, but from the window it did look
like it was falling down.

NYP reminded me was a bit like a big Liverpool Street (modern looking busy
but not that exciting above the track level, and dark and dingy down by
the trains) and Grand Central Terminal has a really nice big hall, but is
truly awful at platform level.

Boston South was the best of a bad bunch at track level of the ones I went
to.

You didn't see the better part of Newark. I took some pictures of it a few
years ago, but due to a failed hard disk I can't start my desktop computer
at the moment, and my SCSI film scanner won't work on my laptop.

There's a picture of it he
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...8/P7140087.JPG

This is taken from the sort of shop/café area at one end; NJ Transit ticket
office and machines to left, the thing with the canopy over it is an
information kiosk. Doorway at far left leads to a passageway with stairs up
to the platforms. Out of sight to he left of this doorway is the Amtrak
ticket office. The door at the far end leads out to the buses; the
metalwork around it, aluminium I think, can also be seen elsewhere in the
station. 1937 I think; I can't remember who the architects were. It
replaced two earlier stations, Market Street for the PRR, and Park Place for
the Hudson & Manhattan, now PATH. There are various shops and eating
places, and also the entrance to the Newark City Subway, in other
passageways at concourse level.

There are some more pictures, including some of the outside he
http://www.thortrains.net/lackawanna/pennsy1.htm

They are of poor quality though.

He http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/21/re...21station.html

he http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoboken_Terminal

and he http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%2...n/hoboken.html

Are pictures of the booking hall/waiting room at Hoboken Terminal. It's the
first one which reminds me somewhat of the Great Hall at the old Euston.