What is the Tallest Station Building ?

[Mutant Lemming]

Waterloo has the most platforms and Clapham Junction is the busiest but which station is the tallest in the country ? St.Pancras maybe ?

 

[ComUtoR]

Would the Shard count as a station building ?

 

[Mag_seven]

Would the Shard count as a station building ?

I don't think so.

 

[tom73]

Would the Shard count as a station building ?

Why would it? It is simply an office building plus ten residential apartments. Bt definition, a station building contains a station.

 

[Ash Bridge]

Would the concourse building at Manchester Piccadilly be in with a shout I wonder? At a guess it's at least 105ft. according to wiki St Pancras tops out at 100ft.

 

[PeterC]

Would the Shard count as a station building ?

If you leave London Bridge by that side you can see that The Shard is quite clearly adjacent to the station rather than part of it. From other angles it can give the impression of being part of the complex.

 

[Elecman]

Would the concourse building at Manchester Piccadilly be in with a shout I wonder? At a guess it's at least 105ft. according to wiki St Pancras tops out at 100ft.

It should donas it physically opens onto the concourse and forms part of the subterranean complex

 

[yorksrob]

One of the 1960's stations which incorperate an office block probably fit the bill. Leeds and Plymouth spring to mind.

 

[InOban]

Does it have to extend over the platforms, or merely be integral with the station? After all, Glasgow Central still has its, now renamed, Station Hotel, and there used to be a direct lift at Waverley into what is now the Balmoral. I'm sure you there are others.

 

[tsr]

Canary Wharf...

OK, so it’s not a National Rail station, but the lower levels of the skyscraper effectively open directly into the DLR station...

 

[TheGrew]

Manchester Victoria if you count the arena above as being a station building?

 

[alistairlees]

Would the concourse building at Manchester Piccadilly be in with a shout I wonder? At a guess it's at least 105ft. according to wiki St Pancras tops out at 100ft.

That's the roof apex. The buildings are taller.

 

[bastien]

How about Embankment Place, on top of Charing Cross? Fifty metres tall apparently.

 

[DarloRich]

Got to be piccadilly- it has a 10 story office block used by the railway attached

 

[driver_m]

Man Piccadilly tower actually has rail staff in it .XC or TPE are on the 9th floor .So unless there's a London station can counter that, maybe that's your winner.

 

[LLivery]

Does Fenchurch Street count? The back end of the station is covered by the America Square building - must be taller than all Piccadilly...

 

[BantamMenace]

New street or snow hill in terms of platform height to top of building?

 

[Dr Hoo]

In terms of height difference between the ‘entrance’ and the top of the station building by the platforms I think that it is another win for Chapel-en-le-Frith. That half-mile long steeply-sloping approach road (all within the station ‘footprint’/lease area) really blows other contenders away. It is also a longer/wider ‘site’ than minnows such as Waterloo and Clapham Junction provided you measure it ‘right’.

 

[delt1c]

If we are talking height from platform level, then 3 stations come to mind
Waterloo (height from Waterloo and City to top) Waterloo and city was formerly NR
Liverpool Lime St
Glasgow central low level
in the past when Bed Pan served moorgate this must have been a contender

 

[DarloRich]

Man Piccadilly tower actually has rail staff in it .XC or TPE are on the 9th floor .So unless there's a London station can counter that, maybe that's your winner.

No they aren't they are lower

Also the platforms are not at street level so are already a couple of floors up

 

[driver_m]

No they aren't they are lower

Also the platforms are not at street level so are already a couple of floors up

I can think of 2 tracks that are.....

 

[marko2]

Archway has to be a good candidate.

 

[AndrewE]

I can't find its height just now, but Birkenhead Hamilton Square is pretty tall for a purely station building. An Italianate tower hiding the chimney for steam engines that apparently powered the original lifts down to the platforms.
Picture off Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birke...on,_Birkenhead_-_geograph.org.uk_-_205071.jpg

 

[USBT]

Not in the UK (but as I live in the US) .....

World Trade Center PATH station in New York City?

 

[DarloRich]

I can think of 2 tracks that are.....

but aren't they for trams so excluded from this discussion

 

[Mutant Lemming]

There are probably varying criteria but I originally had in mind the building that actually houses the trains and tracks rather than adjacent or attached office blocks.

 

[Charlie Smythe]

Waterloo has the most platforms and Clapham Junction is the busiest but which station is the tallest in the country ? St.Pancras maybe ?

The station tower at Plymouth Station, also know as "Intercity House", is a very tall station. It is 10 storeys and is 150ft tall, I don't think they get much taller.

Plymouth Station Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_railway_station
Intercity House Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercity_House

 

[Y Ddraig Coch]

Why would it? It is simply an office building plus ten residential apartments. Bt definition, a station building contains a station.

Not quite true, the shard has quite a few restaurants also. Simply and office building isn't true.

Sitting eating food up on the 31st floor looking over London is beautiful...anyway. shard is not a station building though....so I'll leave it there. Aqua brit and the Hutong are very nice.

 

[driver_m]

but aren't they for trams so excluded from this discussion

Technicalities ...pah!!... Anyway what floor are those two in now? They used to be in the North block with us n Northern, but went in the tower years ago.

So what is it everyone? Piccadilly or Plymouth if we're not counting additions like arenas and shards? Piccadilly tower block is directly accessible from within the station, not just the concourse outside too so it really is a station building.

Purely going off big roofing over platforms is it Pancras?

 

[TheSel]

Depends what you mean by "tall". If you mean maximum height above the rails, how about Arsenalna on Kiev Metro's Sviatoshynsko-Brovarska Line. At 105 metres (roughly 350 feet) below ground, then even if the ground level entrance is a single storey, that's pretty "tall".