Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus
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Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus or CST is an historic railway station in Mumbai and is the headquarters of the Central Railways in India. Formerly, it was called as Victoria Terminus or Bombay VT.
It is one of the busiest railway stations in the country. The construction was started in 1889 and completed in 1897. This building was planned in the Victorian Gothic style of architecture.
The building in an evidence of the mixing of styles of the traditional Indian architecture and the Victorian Italianate Gothic Revival architecture.
The students of the Bombay School of Art worked towards the grills for the ticket offices, ornamental iron and brass railings, the balustrades for the huge staircases, tiles and wood carvings.
The sophisticated structural and technical solutions at this station are an illustration of the nineteenth century railway architectural marvels
Category: Monument and Historic Building
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