write an essay on the railway station
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Rabindranath has said in one of his later poems that the railway icon show that this our world is the handiwork of a painter, not that of a blacksmith or artisan. A railway station is one of the features of modern civilisation. It is a place which helps railway passengers to get down from or board a train. Here passengers as well as goods and luggages are booked. Every railway station is provided with a time-chart for the arrival and departure of trains. It has its staff or officers including the station-master. The porters help passengers with their luggages.
Railway stations differ in size and importance; there are terminal stations like Howrah, Sealdah; junctions like Asansol and halt stations, like Bidhan Nagar. Some have a single platform which can receive only one train at a time. A junction has several platforms, with over-bridges.
The bigger stations have waiting rooms for all classes or passengers; restaurants, loudspeaker system to announce arrival of trains and platforms to touch. Usually the atmosphere is quiet and even sleepy when trains are off. But with the arrival of a train the station suddenly bursts into life. Passengers quit about, porters hurry forward, carrying loads of luggages; hawkers shout their wares in various tunes.