Thursday, February 23, 2012

Grand Central Terminal





This is the exterior or outside look of Grand Central Terminal.






 This is the interior look of Grand Central Terminal






Grand Central Terminal (GCT) also call Grand Central Station (GCS) or Grand Central..

This Terminal has been properly called "Grand Central Terminal" since 1913. But many people call it "Grand Central Station".

Grand Central Terminal is the world Largest Railway Station. Because It has 44 Platforms with 67 tracks. Grand Central Terminal Located at 89 East 42nd Street at Park Avenue, New York City, USA.
The survey of  Travel + Leisure magzine on Grand Central Terminal in oct 2011. This survey show that Grand Central Terminal "the world's number six most visited tourist attraction" , bringing 2 Crore 16 Lac's visitors annually. In Future Grand Central Terminal will offer a total of 48 Platforms and 75 Tracks, when the Long Island Railroad new station open in 2016. One More Interesting Thing is that Grand Central Terminal covers an area of 48 acres.

More & Interesting Information:

American Express Company Publishes Travel Magzine named Travel + Leisure based in New York. This Magzine has 4.8 million readers. This company also publishes Food & Vine, Travel + Leisure Family  and Departures Magzine. and the most interesting about this company and magzine that the owner of the American Express Company led by President & CEO Ed Kelly.

In terms of Platform Capacity, Grand Central Terminal is the world Largest Railway Station. But In terms of Length of Railway, Kharagpur Railway Station is the world Longest Railway Station.

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