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Many stations date from the 19th century and reflect the grandiose architecture of the time, lending prestige to the city as well as to railway operations.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/swissinfo.html?siteSect=105&sid=5050460| title=Stations were gateways to the world| publisher=SwissInfo| date=2 June 2004| author=Miserez, Marc-André| access-date=13 March 2008| archive-date=27 September 2007| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927215205/http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/swissinfo.html?siteSect=105&sid=5050460| url-status=dead}}</ref> Countries where railways arrived later may still have such architecture, as later stations often imitated 19th-century styles. Various forms of architecture have been used in the construction of stations, from those boasting grand, intricate, [[Baroque Revival architecture|Baroque]]- or [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic]]-style edifices, to plainer [[utilitarian]] or [[Modern architecture|modernist]] styles. Stations in Europe tended to follow British designs and were in some countries, like Italy, financed by British railway companies.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://members.aol.com/Zacarious1/his.italy.html| title=Italian Railroad Stations| work=History of Railroad Stations| access-date=13 March 2008}}</ref>

 

 

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