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trains to take them forward. For this class of traffic it will also 

 be necessary to provide suitable refreshment-rooms. At large 

 terminal stations it is frequently found more convenient for the 

 working of the traffic to have two or more sets of waiting-rooms, 

 etc., separating the local and long-journey passengers, and 

 placing the rooms alongside the corresponding platforms. 



Lavatories and conveniences at large stations should be 

 provided on a liberal scale, and fitted up in the most substantial 

 and efficient manner. Not only should they be thoroughly well 

 ventilated, but they should have abundance of light. Nothing 

 tends so much to ensure order and cleanliness in these places as 

 plenty of light. 



It will frequently be found that at many of the large 

 important stations there are local surroundings and circum- 

 stances of level and foundations, which will to a great extent 

 influence the arrangement of the rooms and offices to be devoted 

 to the public service. No fixed or standard type could be 

 adopted for all cases. Each one will have to be studied out to 

 suit the locality, and the grouping must be made to work in with 

 the best facilities obtainable. In all such cases one of the 

 principal points is to select a convenient position for the booking- 

 hall, easy of access to all persons entering the station premises. 

 On no account should the ticket-office be placed in a position 

 tending to block the thoroughfare on to the platforms. A large 

 number of intending passengers may already be in possession of 

 tickets, and the station arrangements should enable these pas- 

 sengers to proceed at once to the platforms without having to 

 struggle or force their way through crowds of other passengers 

 gathered round the ticket windows. In some instances it is 

 found expedient to provide auxiliary booking-offices for excursion 

 traffic, to be used only on special occasions, thus restricting the 

 principal booking-offices to the ordinary main-line booking. 



When laying out small intermediate or roadside stations for 

 either double or single line, or small terminal stations on short 

 branch lines in thinly populated districts, it becomes a question 

 how to provide the requisite statutory accommodation with a 

 minimum amount of building. The following sketches taken 

 from actual examples may be of use for reference. 



Fig. 383 shows the smallest size of station building that can 

 very well be constructed to be of any practical service. It 

 comprises an office for the station-master, who has to attend to 



