India: Mumbai – Victoria Terminus Railway Station

Victoria Terminus aka Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus is a UNESCO Site in its own separate right. The grand Victorian Italianate Gothic Revival-style building was built in 1887 and is more akin to a lux Palace then a Railroad station. Towers, turrets, arches, wood carvings, cast iron decorations – all give off a palatial feel. The station is equally lavish inside with domed roof and colorful and ornamental ticket office. While it looks like a palace, the station was engineered and built with the latest technology at the time to serve as the terminus of the business railway in India. It’s busy and hectic all around the terminus as slightly disheveled Indian trains arrive and depart with hundreds of passengers running around. Just outside the station is an equally grand and similar building of the Municipal Corporation of Mumbai.
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