Abandoned Train Stations: (Abandoned Places)

Mysterious ghost stations forgotten beneath the cities of Paris and London; desolate grand rail hubs in the Pyrenean mountains; metro stations in China that terminate in a wasteland; Abandoned Train Stations looks at some of the thousands of disused station buildings, platforms, lines, tunnels, and rail yards left behind by modernity. Organised by continent, this book takes the reader to every corner of the globe. Explore Canfranc International Railway Station, once a busy mountain hub of international travel between France and Spain; see the eerily empty platform at Kings Cross Thameslink, London, today a service tunnel following the station's closure in the early 2000s; examine the grandiose Michigan Central Train Station in Detroit, an historic Amtrak rail depot, and once the tallest rail station in the world; marvel at the dusty, overgrown shell of Abkhazia's once beautiful railway station in Psyrtskha, a physical legacy of the former Soviet era in the Caucasus; see the disused Tiwanaku train station, situated almost 4,000 metres above sea level in the Bolivian Andes; or learn about the fascinating Istvantelek Train Yard, in the Hungarian capital of Budapest, better known as the 'Red Star train graveyard' because of its many Soviet-era engine wrecks. Illustrated with more than 200 photographs, Abandoned Train Stations provides a fascinating pictorial journey through the little-known remnants of rail transport infrastructure from every part of the world.

Table of Contents:
Contents include: Europe Clifton Rocks Railway, Bristol, England Swanbourne Station, Buckinghamshire, England Loudwater Station, near Wycombe, England Spencer Road Halt railway station, Surrey, England Folkestone Harbour Railway Station, England Healey Mills Marshalling Depot, Yorkshire, England, Thameslink Pentonville Road, London, England Coombe Road Railway Station, London Kingsway Tramway Subway at Southampton Row, Holborn, London Crouch End Station, London Down Street, London Eastern platform of Strand tube station, London Aldwych Tube Station, London Waiting room on the Dunfermline to Alloa Line, Scotland Corrour Station, Fort William, Scotland Parkmore narrow gauge station, N. Ireland Adare Railway Station, Ireland Valkyrie Plass T-Bane station, Oslo, Norway Ringstabekk, Oslo metro, Norway Aachen, Germany Anhalter Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany Bahnbetriebswerk Pankow-Heinersdorf in Berlin, Germany Natur-Park Südgelände, Berlin, Germany La Petite Ceinture, Paris, France C roix-Rouge, Paris, France Saint-Martin station, Paris, France Gare du Nord USFRT, Paris, France Brignoles, France Montzen station, Belgium Canfranc International Railway Station, Spain former railway station in Galacia, Spain Lagos Old Railway Station, Lagos, Portugal Monte Romano, Italy Bacoli, Italy Potamos, Evros, Thraki (Thrace), Greece Belgrade, Serbia Brcko, Bosnia Kácov Station, Czech Republic Brno, Czech Republic Knizhovnik, Bulgaria Częstochowa train depot, Poland Istvántelek Train Yard, Budapest, Hungary Kiev subway, Ukraine Tunnel of Love, Klevan, Ukraine Yanov Train Station, near Chernobyl, Ukraine Kirovsk, Russia Hall Railway Station Psyrtskha, New Athos, Georgia Gudauta station, Abkhazia Psyrtskha Railway Station, Abkhazia The Americas Santa Fe Railroad, New Mexico, United States Redlands, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States Michigan Central Train Station, Detroit, Michigan, USA Keeler, California, United States 16th Street Station, Oakland, California, USA Union Station, Gary, Indiana, USA Thurmond, West Virginia, USA Station of Ronceverte, West Virginia Cincinnati Subway, Cincinnati, Ohio Gilroy, California, United States City Hall Subway Station, New York, USA Worth Street station, New York, USA New York Central Terminal railroad station, Buffalo, New York Rhyolite, near Death Valley, Nevada, United States Paris, Kentucky, USA Old Central Station, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA Trinidad, Cuba La Quemada, Jalisco, Mexico Colonia del Sacramento Railway Station, Uruguay Estacion Caipe, Argentina Tiwanaku (Tiahuanaco), Bolivia Baquedano, Antofagasta, Chile Asia and the Pacific Takachiho Amaterasu Railway, Japan Jinhua, China Caojiawan metro station in Chongqing, China Fushouling Station, Beijing, China Guilin, Guangxi Province, China Jurong railway line, Singapore Tanjong Pagar station, Singapore Ulu Yam railway station, Selangor, Malaysia Mae klong Railway station, Samut Songkhram, Thailand Battambang, Cambodia Begunkodor Railway Station, Purulia District, India Danushkodi Railway Station, Tamil Nadu, India Lahore Railway Station, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan Helensburgh Railway Station, New South Wales, Australia Jincumbilly Station, Bombala, New South Wales, Australia Loftus Tram Shed, Sydney, Australia Africa and the Middle East Tripoli Station, El-Mina, Tripoli, Lebanon Hejaz railway station, Mudawwara, Saudi Arabia Grasplatz, Luderitz, Namibia Abandoned station building, Sudan Bamako, Mali, West Africa Saint Louis, Senegal Wyke railway station, Western Cape Assuncao, Namibe province, Angola Disused Train Shed, East Africa Railway, Iganga, Eastern Uganda Ethio-djibouti railway station, Dire dawa, Ethiopia

About the Author :
David Ross specialises in maritime, engineering and railway history and he has written and contributed to numerous books on these subjects. His most recent books are Abandoned Industrial Places, Rail Journeys, Bridges, Coast, Lighthouses, Ships Visual Encyclopedia, Submarines, and The World’s Greatest Battleships. He lives in England.