1. Here the notion of the railway station as city gate was given direct architectural form as at London's Euston half a century earlier. BNCB
2. At Cleveland , an immense skyscraper station, with a central tower and clock fifty-two storeys high, consciously designed as a city gate and as the centre of a great transportation network, was built between 1923 and 1930.
3. We had reached the city gate now. I saw the difference the flood had made. BNCB