Abandoned Train Stations av David Ross

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<p>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; <i>Abandoned Train Stations</i> looks at some of the thousands of disused station buildings, platforms, lines, tunnels, and rail yards left behind by modernity. <br>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 t