The Samarkand Train Station

Most of the train stations in Uzbekistan are generic in design, modern, white cube looking things that have been repeated throughout the country. Make sure you read the city sign to confirm where you are. Not so for Samarkand, which has something of a modernist statement. You have arrived!

The station is kind of monumental. Big clock tower, powerful columns with funky, splayed tops.

Funky, diamond shaped designs and an overhang that really hangs.

Columns are repeated in the main waiting area.

Interior details, round, stained glass inserts and a round opening for a stairway leading down to the tracks.

Looking a bit like a cathedral for transportation.