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World's Busiest Train Stations: Kolkata, Melbourne, New York City, Zurich
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World's Busiest Train Stations: Kolkata, Melbourne, New York City, Zurich

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Four of the world's busiest rail hubs get the full behind-the-scenes treatment, station by station. Howrah Junction in Kolkata handles roughly a million passengers a day across 23 platforms, and cameras follow the staff keeping trains moving through the riverside terminus built during the British Raj. Melbourne's station, opened in 1854, is shown as the grandest in the southern hemisphere, a title it held after overtaking Paris's Gare Saint-Lazare and London's Liverpool Street. New York's Grand Central gets attention for its art deco design, commissioned by Cornelius Vanderbilt, its 44 platforms, the Oyster Bar, and the quarter of a million daily commuters who pass through what is also one of the most visited attractions in the country. Zurich rounds out the survey as the busiest station in a country built around rail punctuality. Each segment mixes control-room footage, platform-level chaos, and interviews with the workers who run these terminals, showing how architecture, history, and sheer volume collide in four very different cities.