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Is the following sentence acceptable?
The interior of the train station, with superb, luxurious, and exquisite decorations, was having a nostalgic design and inspiration.
 

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Is the following sentence acceptable?
The interior of the train station, with superb, luxurious, and exquisite decorations, was having a nostalgic design and inspiration.
No, you can't use "was having" like that.
 

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The interior of the train station, with superb, luxurious, and exquisite decorations, had a nostalgic design and inspiration.
 

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With its superb works better for me, but the sentence is a bit flowery for my taste. ;-)
 

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The interior of the train station, with superb, luxurious, and exquisite decorations, had a nostalgic design and inspiration.

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In my opinion things don't have an inspiration but rather either are an inspiration or simply inspire.

Therefore I would rewrite your sentence thus:

The interior of the train station, with its superb, luxurious and exquisite decorations, had a nostalgic design and was an inspiration.

or

The interior of the train station, with its superb, luxurious and exquisite decorations, had a nostalgic design and inspired.

It is people who can have an inspiration, meaning that a wonderful idea has dawned on them.

BTW is "inspiration" really a countable noun?
 

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She is an inspiration to her classmates. Yes.

I was guessing that the designer was inspired by something.
 
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