Comments on: Abandoned Subway Stations Around The World (Photo Gallery)

By: Rabbit Cages

Rabbit Cages — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:46:51 +0000

Thats horrible…so beautiful of structures and they have gone to waste….

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By: nanc

nanc — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:35:19 +0000

I used to exit the Belmont tunnel everyday when I went to school. The Terminal building was beautiful.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:30:50 +0000

The one in Toronto is interesting as a Modern era contrast to virtually all the others on the list.

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By: bealsatos

bealsatos — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:18:39 +0000

crazy, thanks for the photos..

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By: Kate Day

Kate Day — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:02:23 +0000

Thanks for this. There’s something completely fascinating about abandoned stations. I visited the station my grandfather was born on recently. It is now a private house that has been turned into something of a museum. Very cool

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/kateday/10022737/down_the_line_to_burgh_le_marsh/

By: Zach

Zach — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:12:20 +0000

Prague has one downtown just a block away from Tesco (and towards the Vltava River). I forget the name of it….but when I was there 10 years ago, it was basically used as a hang out for skateboarders and the occasional band. It’s right off a well-trafficked street, is known to everyone, and is basically nothing but a concrete cavern that acts as an “underground park”.

By: David Powell

David Powell — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:01:06 +0000

While the Cincinnati subway has never seen track. It’s far from being abandoned. It is still maintained as a utility tunnel for water and communitation lines. It is still Cincinnati’s longest highway bridge supporting Central Parkway for two miles above. Many of us in the Cincinnati area would still love to see the subway completed for it’s intended purpose.
The Cincinnati Musuem Center at Union Terminal offers annual tours of the Race (Canal) Street subway station and it’s tunnels annually as part of thier Heritage programs. The tours generally takes place in April.

By: W. K. Lis

W. K. Lis — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:53:26 +0000

Check this out about was recently done to the TTC’s lower Bay station: http://www.blogto.com/arts/2009/08/absolut_lower_bay_subway_station/ which was turned into an “interactive installation and party venue on Thursday by local multidisciplinary artist Justin Broadbent”.

By: Ted King

Ted King — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:33:10 +0000

More on poncho’s comment :
The Market St. Subway begins just East of the abandoned station. That station was just before the Twin Peaks Tunnel’s (TPT’s) East Portal. If you are riding on the SF Muni’s Metro heading downtown from the West Portal station watch carefully as you approach the Castro St. station. You can see three things : graffiti, the old platform (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_Station ), and the exit ramps for the pre-LRV service through the TPT. I remember reading an article many years ago that said that the TPT had been built with a hump at the East end so as to make it easier to tie into a future subway tunnel.

P.S. Hair-splitting - the Market Street Subway tunnel ends just West of the Castro St. station. The TPT takes over at that point. Its course veers from Market St.’s SW to almost WSW. If one were to look at a map one would be looking at a three part bow - Portola Dr. (upper staff), Market St. (lower staff), and the tracks (string).

By: Eric O

Eric O — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:00:22 +0000

I think the “unidentified ’secret’ station under New York City” might be part of the West Side Light Rail Easement built into/around the West Side rail tunnels currently used by Amtrak.

I can’t tell for sure, but the design in the pic posted here looks very similar to the pics in this link:

http://www.hopetunnel.org/subway/wslrt/index.html

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By: NUXI

NUXI — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:52:31 +0000

Detroit started building one too and then abandoned it. From what I’ve heard, a single segment of tube and part of a station was excavated before it was shut down.

http://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/Detroit-Subway-t18781.html

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:02:20 +0000

Love the pictures of the abandoned subway stations, very cool and fascinating. Thanks!

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:00:39 +0000

FYI, Belmont Tunnel was also recognizable as the setting for countless movies and TV, like “V” and Predator 2.

By: phill.d

phill.d — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:19:51 +0000

Englands Ghost station of Manchester story here
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=265602590&blogId=494800841

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By: Seth

Seth — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:16:58 +0000

Remember the abandoned station from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III ? Why no picture?

By: John Thacker

John Thacker — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:08:12 +0000

“One notable exception is Rochester’s subway system, which was shut down entirely in the 1950s. It was a full and functional small city network and might be sorely missed at some future date–if it isn’t already.”

Yeah, well, only if Rochester starts growing in population again instead of shrinking. As you note, Rochester was already the smallest city to have a subway system when it was built (around 300,000), but the city is down to around 200,000 people now.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:14:56 +0000

Lukus,

Yeah, that’s interesting…. but I found a couple of sources that both give the 1939 date, including this AP story.

Design ahead of its time, perhaps?

By: lukus

lukus — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:48:00 +0000

Are you sure the Croix Rouge was closed in WWII? Those look like plastic benches with a 60’s style.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:51:44 +0000

It would be a shame to miss out on the biggest Metro system in the world and all its abandoned stations…. London Underground

http://www.abandonedstations.org.uk/

By: Kyle

Kyle — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:29:18 +0000

I have several books about the Cincinnati Subway. Originally, the Miami-Erie canal ran through Cincinnati, but by the early 20th century, and fallen into disuse and stagnation. In an effort to both boost the local transit (and eliminate what had become quite an eyesore), Cincinnati drained the canal and built the subway tunnels into the canal bed.

By: Vijay Prozak

Vijay Prozak — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:49:24 +0000

It’s a good thing we’re leaving fascinating, graceful, architecturally interesting and epic Wal-Marts and Home Depots behind for future generations.

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By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:53:46 +0000

You have the Belmont Tunnel, which was NOT a subway station, yet you don’t have the Subway Terminal (the other end of the Belmont Tunnel) which was a station. http://www.westworld.com/~elson/larail/PE/terminal.html

By: Jon Davis

Jon Davis — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:52:49 +0000

Bob Davis @ 1 a.m.,

You’re right, there are some closed stations along the Blue Line. My sense is that they were closed because they were so close to other, still operating stations that they were superfluous.

A great site for further information about our L system is http://www.chicago-l.org. Enjoy.

And this is a great post. Thanks, Infrastructurist.

By: Lisa Bell

Lisa Bell — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:35:44 +0000

During the Cold War, there were about a dozen East Berlin station closed on several West Berlin U- & S- Bahn lines. Trains still had to reduce speed going through these stations. Google “Ghost Stations of East Berlin.”

(Hat Tip: KK)

By: Bob Davis

Bob Davis — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:00:18 +0000

Chicago has some “ghost” rapid transit stations on the “Congress” line to DesPlaines at California, Kostner and Central. They are intact, but closed to passenger service. Someone from Chi-town could confirm this–I think they’re in “derelict” neighborhoods where nobody with a sense of self-preservation would want to stop.

By: EdFromDC

EdFromDC — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:23:21 +0000

@Living in Gin - my family are from Dayton and lived in Texas, and when I was young we’d take frequent car trips back to Ohio to see the family. Every time we went through Cincy my Mom would say something like, “Did you know Cincinnati used to have a subway?” (It became a running joke in my family, because it seems like she always said it as if we had never heard that before.)

And you could see the portals from the freeway, which always intrigued me as a kid. I wanted to explore them so badly. It wasn’t until a few years ago, when there was the interwebs, when I could finally explore them, albeit virtually. Thanks for that link.

By: poncho

poncho — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:09:12 +0000

theres an abandoned station in SF in the castro as part of the twin peaks tunnel

By: Doctor Memory

Doctor Memory — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:09:10 +0000

I suspect that the “secret” station is one of the abandoned proto-stations on the now-finally-under-construction-again Second Avenue Subway.

There are actually quite a few abandoned subway stations in the NYC system; you can find pictures of most of them here.