The document discusses the history and architecture of railway stations, highlighting the world's first station built in the UK and the development of Pakistan's railway heritage. It emphasizes the importance of station design for accessibility, community integration, and user experience while addressing the dynamic needs of passengers. Recommendations are provided for improving railway stations to enhance public transport systems, focusing on user-centric principles.

2. A railway facility where trains regularly stop to
load or unload passengers.
It generally consists of at least one track-
side platform and a station building providing
such ancillary services as ticket sales
and waiting rooms.

3. World’s First Railway Station:
The station was built between 1875 and 1880 by
the Cheshire Lines Committee, and was
officially opened on 1 July 1880. The architect
was Sir John Fowlerand the engineers were
Richard Johnson, Andrew Johnston and
Charles Sacré. . It had two wooden platforms
serving four tracks. When the station opened,
the temporary station became Manchester
Central Goods.

5. Pakistan’s First Railway Station:
Pakistan has a rich railway heritage spanning
almost 200 years which it owes the British. It
was in 1847 when the first railway was
imagined but it was not until 1861 when it
came into existence in the form of the
railway built from Karachi to Kotri.

7. Quetta was considered as an important strategic
destination during British Raj.
Quetta railway station of Quetta, Balochistan.
Quetta is connected to Lahore by a
1,170-kilometre-long (727 mi) railway line.
Similarly, it is also connected by rail
with Peshawar (1,587 kilometers
(986 mi)), Karachi (863 kilometers (536 mi)) and
with Zahedan, a city in neighboring Iran.

9. Colonial Architecture: Colonists frequently
built settlements that synthesized the
architecture of their countries of origin with
the design characteristics of their new lands,
creating hybrid designs.
In the British colonial age predominantly
representative buildings of the Indo-
European style developed, from a mixture of
European and Indian-Islamic components.

11. Railway station architecture is not just the
architecture of the station building. It
includes the design of separate platforms
and canopies, or the train shed (i.e. an the
overall canopy for the platforms and tracks),
if any. Also, shelters can impart the
characteristic face of the station and be more
than a utilitarian form of construction.

12.  Accessibility
 Ease of navigation
 Comfort and amenity
 Information
 Safety
 Local area integration
 Community ownership and activity.

14.  Movement
 Access & inclusivity
 Way finding
 Passenger
information
 Comfort
 Attractiveness

15.  Station operations
 Management
 Maintenance
 Passenger safety
 Secure by design
 Services

16.  Integration with
context
 Good design
 Sense of place
 Anticipate
passenger’s
dynamic needs

17.  Life costs
 Positive impacts
social, economic &
environmental
 Site ecology
 Regeneration

18. Station designs need to cater for a broad range
of activities and should be resilient to the
changing conditions experienced within a
station, both during the operational day and
throughout the year. Depending on context,
station design may also need to
accommodate a range of operational
scenarios, such as major events, changes to
service, or adverse weather conditions.

19. The Station User recommends the Railway
Station Use ability Principles to the
Government, to improve the design and
operation of railway stations, from a user and
community perspective. There are no simple
and easy solutions that can address all the
issues that users have raised. The panel has
tried to ensure that its recommendations are
meaningful and sensible for improving railway
stations.
The principles will help the Government meet
public expectations around train stations,
delivering a better public transport system.