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Johannesburg Park Station

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Johannesburg Park Station is the central railway station of Johannesburg, South Africa, and the largest railway station on the African continent. A station on the site first opened in 1897, built as a steel and glass structure imported from the Netherlands and designed by Jacob Klinkhammer, with cast iron pillars, ornate ironwork and a glass domed roof over oak paneled interiors. A 1932 station designed by Gordon Leith and Partners with Gerhard Moerdyk and Watson added a concourse of Tuscan colonnades decorated with twenty eight painted panels by the artist Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef and hand painted tiled restaurants, though its facilities were built to enforce racial segregation, giving superior amenities to white passengers and inferior amenities to others. The current main structure, designed by the firm Kennedy, Furner, Irvine-Smith and Joubert with the civil engineer A.S. Joffe, was built during a reconstruction lasting from 1948 to 1965 and officially opened in 1965; the station now also connects to the underground Gautrain line and several other railway networks.

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Building Type
Railway Station 1
Location
Johannesburg, South Africa 1
Completed Year
1965 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
Railway Station 1
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Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

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Source Johannesburg Park Station, Wikipedia
Source Johannesburg Park Station, Wikipedia
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1. Johannesburg Park Station, Wikipedia
  • Lead, first paragraph
    and the largest railway station in Africa. It is located between the
  • Short description
    Central railway station in Johannesburg, South Africa
  • History, 1965 station
    When it officially opened in 1965, with ten suburban lines and six main lines.
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    Johannesburg Park Station is the central railway station of Johannesburg, South Africa, and the largest railway station on the African continent. A station on the site first opened in 1897, built as a steel and glass structure imported from the Netherlands and designed by Jacob Klinkhammer, with cast iron pillars, ornate ironwork and a glass domed roof over oak paneled interiors. A 1932 station designed by Gordon Leith and Partners with Gerhard Moerdyk and Watson added a concourse of Tuscan colonnades decorated with twenty eight painted panels by the artist Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef and hand painted tiled restaurants, though its facilities were built to enforce racial segregation, giving superior amenities to white passengers and inferior amenities to others. The current main structure, designed by the firm Kennedy, Furner, Irvine-Smith and Joubert with the civil engineer A.S. Joffe, was built during a reconstruction lasting from 1948 to 1965 and officially opened in 1965; the station now also connects to the underground Gautrain line and several other railway networks.
  • Uses Element: Cast Iron, Wikipedia article
    It was designed with cast iron pillars, ornate olive coloured iron work and a glass domed roof while the offices and restaurant walls were made of carved oak wood.
  • Uses Element: Glass, Wikipedia article
    It was designed with cast iron pillars, ornate olive coloured iron work and a glass domed roof while the offices and restaurant walls were made of carved oak wood.
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