A RAILWAY STATION

A railway station is a part and parcel of train communication of a country. It is a place where trains stop and start from. There is a platform here. The passengers get down and get into a train from a railway station The buildings of a station are generally made of red bricks. One can see from a distance the green red and blue signal and painted houses of a station: There are waiting rooms for male and female passengers. There are ticket counter, the booking office for goods, restaurants, book stall and station master's room etc. There are two or more railway tracks in every station. There are lwo signals--one inner and the other outer. Before the arrival of a train the pointsman gets them down. The pointsman moves with his red and green flags. There are stands for rickshaws, auto-rickshaws and other vehicles in a railway station. Before the arrival of a train passengers stand in a line to buy their tickets. When a train arrives, the station becomes busy and noisy When a train leaves the station, it again becomes calm and quiet.