Gothenburg Central Station
Sweden's oldest working railway station, a nineteenth-century hall where emigrants began their voyage.
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This guide to Gothenburg Central Station, the oldest working railway station in Sweden, follows the emigrants who stepped off trains here in the eighteen hundreds, bound for the sea rather than the city. It draws on a shipping report from May eighteen eighty-two and the North Sea crossing to Hull. You'll hear about Herring Street's cramped rooms and a curious local trade in bedding. Best heard in the main hall, under the glass roof.
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