![]() All the sides of the building are given equal value in the design. It has a C-shaped plan which is symmetrical on an east–west axis. It is a utilitarian building and has had various changes required by the users, not always sympathetic. ![]() The interior of the building was conceived as a series of large rooms with high ceilings. Īn evening view of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Teminus. CSMT's dome of dovetailed ribs, built without centering, was considered as a novel achievement of the era. The centrally domed office structure has a 330-foot-long platform connected to a 1,200-foot-long train shed, and its outline provides the skeleton plan for the building. It is one of the first and finest products of the use of industrial technology, merged with the Gothic Revival style in India. The CSMT was constructed using a high level of engineering both in terms of railway and civil engineering. The station stands as an example of 19th-century railway architectural marvels for its advanced structural and technical solutions. Externally, the wood carving, tiles, ornamental iron and brass railings, grills for the ticket offices, the balustrades for the grand staircases and other ornaments were the work of students at the Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art. The skyline, turrets, pointed arches, and eccentric ground plan are close to classical Indian palace architecture. The building exhibits a fusion of influences from Victorian Italianate Gothic Revival architecture and classical Indian architecture. The station building is designed in the High Victorian Gothic style of architecture. The station took ten years to complete, the longest for any building of that era in Mumbai.Ī 1903 photo of the Victoria Terminus, Bombay which was completed in 1888. The style of the station is also similar to other public buildings of the 1870s in Mumbai, such as the Elphinstone College but especially the buildings of Mumbai University, also designed by G Scott. The design has been compared to George Gilbert Scott's 1873 St Pancras railway station in London, also in an exuberant Italian Gothic style, but it is far closer to Scott's second prize winning entry for Berlin's parliament building, exhibited in London in 1875, which featured numerous towers and turrets, and a large central ribbed dome. Stevens earned the commission to construct the station after a masterpiece watercolour sketch by draughtsman Axel Haig. He received ₹1,614,000 (US$20,000) as the payment for his services. The station was designed by Frederick William Stevens, a British born engineer architect, attached to the Bombay office of the Indian colonial Public Works Department. ![]() Since Mumbai became a major port city at the time, a bigger station was built to meet its demands, and was named Victoria Terminus, after the then reigning Empress of India, Victoria. The railway station was built to replace the Bori Bunder railway station, in the Bori Bunder area of Mumbai, a prominent port and warehouse area known for its imports and exports. This famous landmark which has become a symbol of the city, was built as the headquarters of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway. It is one of the busiest railway stations in India, serving as a terminal for both long-distance and suburban trains with a total number of 18 platforms. The terminus is the headquarters of India's Central Railway. In 2017, the station was again renamed "Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus" (with code CSMT), where the title Maharaj has literal meaning, "Great king emperor." Both former initials "VT" and the current, "CST", are also commonly used. In March 1996 the station name was changed from Victoria Terminus to "Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus" (with station code CST) after Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the 17th-century warrior king who employed guerrilla tactics to contest the Mughal Empire and found a new state in the western Marathi-speaking regions of the Deccan Plateau. Its construction began in 1878, in a location south of the old Bori Bunder railway station, and was completed in 1887, the year marking 50 years of Queen Victoria's rule. The terminus was designed by a British born architectural engineer Frederick William Stevens from an initial design by Axel Haig, in an exuberant Italian Gothic style. Mumbai CSMT (Maharashtra) Show map of MaharashtraĬhhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (previously Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai station code: CSMT ( mainline) / ST ( suburban), is a railway terminus and UNESCO World Heritage Site in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Mumbai–Chennai line Mumbai-Ahmednagar railway line via Kalyan was also in planning stage with survey of this project carried out on 1970, 2000, 2014 etc.
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