When fully. completed, the new station will undoubtedly be the largest in the world, beating even the Union Station, St. Loui though that has 31 platforms, as compared ith Boston's 28 forms and a basement loop." The building, shed, and yards immediately connected occupy 35 acres of land, and the roof of the shed alone covers 144. In London the nine most important stations, if placed together, would occupy 93 acres, of which Liverpool Street takes 22, Waterloo 16}, and King's Cross 16. The last-named has the largest: roof of any London station, covering 9 acres- Seeing that the Boston station is intended to accommodate the traffic of at least three separate Companies, and to take the place of four older stations, it is not very much out of proportion that its acreage should be about three times the average acreage of our London termini: To outward view the size of this Boston giant does not appear to impress the American beholder as much as that of Broad Street Station, Philadelphia. It is only by some such plan as is given in the Radway Age, showing that the Boston Station area will easily include the sites of twenty-four prominent Boston buildings, that the real magnitude of the structure can be brought home.
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