'twas a very dark time for Lego back then. Brickset mentions 28 World City Set for that year but 13 are for the same plane with different liveries. Of the remaining few sets, there was a cargo train:lame, a passenger train: lamish; but they had (1) an engine shed: very nice, (2) a railroad crossing not half bad - vehicle ugly but rest was fine, (3) a crane also fine with an ugly vehicle and that "Grand Central Station" which is also not that bad considering the era.

3 parts from having this complete. Its a patient process hunting this stuff down on BL.

This station had a real architectural style, to it, and not many other Lego buildings did (and a lot still don't). On mine, I took out the revolving door (I know it's one of the station's defining features, but it takes up a lot of space on a gimmick), moved all the computers into the office, and then moved the cafe upstairs (allowing an inside waiting room on the other side).

Huwbot will rise!!! :)

It was trying a bit too hard to be a contemporary looking station, what with those steel struts supporting the roof things. (2014's Train Station 60050 also falls into this category). The decoration and glass canopies at the top look really superfluous. But it wasn't altogether too bad.

I always found the darker, depressive tones of World City intriguing.

@TeriXeri said:
"This was the last year LEGO used those raised platform parts. (16x16 , 2 bricks high)"

So the platforms are made of specialized "meta pieces"? I was just wondering when I read your (informative) comment. Thx

@Brick_t_ said:
" @TeriXeri said:
"This was the last year LEGO used those raised platform parts. (16x16 , 2 bricks high)"

So the platforms are made of specialized "meta pieces"? I was just wondering when I read your (informative) comment. Thx"

They were a staple of train station and harbor sets throughout the 90s.

The electrifying days of electric tracks and no dead battery worries! Great model for a fair price at the time, I could never quite work out whether the station was facing the wrong way or not, as from the picture looks like the street entrance with the glass windows, rotating door, street lights etc., but the platform is obviously needed for the train.

That's a really odd looking post office...

@chrisaw said:
"Just another cruel reminder there’s no decent train station available currently..."

I mean the Disney set has a nice station building. But it is an expensive set and due to being based on a very iconic real life structure might not be easy to incorporate into a Lego layout without it looking like it came straight out of Disneyland.

And although it just retired the Hogwarts Express set has a bit of the Kings Cross platforms included.

I have two of these set up.

@HOBBES said:
"'twas a very dark time for Lego back then. Brickset mentions 28 World City Set for that year but 13 are for the same plane with different liveries. Of the remaining few sets, there was a cargo train:lame, a passenger train: lamish; but they had (1) an engine shed: very nice, (2) a railroad crossing not half bad - vehicle ugly but rest was fine, (3) a crane also fine with an ugly vehicle and that "Grand Central Station" which is also not that bad considering the era."
I thought the cargo train was pretty good! It just lacked any trackside equipment with which to handle the cargo. The passenger train /was/ lame. Not a single straight track, and only 1 loco and 1 carriage, despite being one of the best-looking high-speed trains on my list (right up there with 4558, 4561, 10233 and 60197). Sure, at least there were additional locos, carriages and straight track packs sold separately at the time, but those additional purchases were almost mandatory for a layout and train of proper length.

I always thought the engineer at the controls in the bottom left corner of World City Train box art looked somewhat sinister. Normally any real person or minfigure depicted on the box or instructions is facing forward and not in the bottom corner in the shadows.