Dalat railway station

Dalat Railway Station is a railway station on the Dalat-Thap Cham Railway in Vietnam, serving Dalat City, Lam Dong Province. It was designed in 1932 by French architects Moncet and Reveron and opened in 1938. A few years after opening in 1938, it was abandoned for a long time due to the war. It was not until the 1990s that a 7-kilometer long tourist route to the nearby village of TraiMat was restored. Dalat Railway Station has a unique architectural style, which is generally ArtDeco style, combined with local architectural elements of the central highlands of Vietnam.

The train station is composed of several European-style buildings with yellow exterior walls and triangular roofs. Although times have changed, you can still see the glory of the early days when the train station was built. The vaults in the train station hall are all wooden structures, and there are three stained glass walls on the south wall. This is an architectural feature commonly used in Europe more than 100 years ago. It makes people feel the splendor and grandeur of classical architecture. All facilities in the train station hall are made of wooden structure and use a large number of glass windows. At that time, this railway used steam locomotives to pull trains and used narrow gauge. Exterior corridor-type diesel locomotives are now used to pull sightseeing trains.

Tourists can take a sightseeing train after visiting the train station. They can see Vietnam's rural scenery along the way. When the train arrives at the terminal, there is a waiting time of two or three hours. If you are interested, you can hike to a nearby large temple to visit, or you can return the same way. Although the mileage of the sightseeing train is only a few kilometers, it allows you to experience the style of French railways back then.