St. Lazare's gotten a bit bigger since Monet painted it!
On the other hand -- once you get past all the terminal access tracks, all you have is a piddly little double-track line, and with tight loading gage to boot. To be a "Broad Way" you need four or more tracks ALL THE WAY. Terminal trackage, intricate and impressive as it is, doesn't count as main line.
That's not to say there aren't four-track mains of equivalent 'majesty' in Britain and Europe -- just that this one, enjoyable as it is to watch, isn't.
OBLIGATORY PUN: If this is a 'Brad-way of Steel' -- where are Janet, Frank, and Riff? <throws toast at the screen and thinks about little square hamburgers>
RME
If anyone just thought that the only one having a broad way of steel was PRR, you should see this video. It depicts part of the Normandy main line leaving Paris T. Nazare. Calling it a maze of tracks seems to be something more adequate
watch?v=3xO7DJ15G3g
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