“The six large Victorian stations in London were built from 1852 to 1902 but the alterations and additions frequently made to them in that period homogenized the group considerably. It is difficult to describe railroad stations as architecture because they are experienced less deliberately than other buildings. One of Ruskin’s clearest failings is his treatment of them as so much iron and glass, for no one ever sees a railroad station empty in the architect’s model state he is talking about, and even the idle visitor is soon agitated by the hurry around him, in the middle of arrivers and leavers catches the construction of the building only out of the corner of his eye.”

(Robert Harbison, Eccentric Spaces, p. 39)