California’s Abandoned Saline Valley Aerial Tramway
(Image: LCGS Russ. The Saline Valley aerial tramway aka salt tram) Amid the searing heat of Death Valley National Park in the rain shadow of the mighty Sierra Nevada, the arid expanse of California’s...
View ArticleStrand Underpass: From Disused Tram Subway to Modern Vehicle Tunnel
(Image: Sixthland. Inside the Strand Underpass today) Take a trip through the Strand Underpass in central London and you’ll find a vehicle tunnel like any other. But this tunnel, which connects...
View ArticleUnited States Capitol Subway System: A Brief History
(Image: US Congress. United States Capitol subway system car beneath the Russell Senate Office Building) The Washington Metro rapid transit system, which serves the Washington, DC metropolitan area in...
View ArticleSS Atlantus: New Jersey’s Concrete Shipwreck
(Image: © Luigi Novi / Wikimedia Commons. Wreck of the concrete ship SS Atlantus) Aground off the coast of Cape May, New Jersey, a hulking shipwreck serves as a lasting reminder of perhaps one of the...
View ArticleNavagio: Abandoned MV Panagiotis on Shipwreck Beach
(Image: Walkerssk. “Navagio” is home to the wreck of MV Panagiotis) According to Adventurous Travels, this isolated cove boasts one of the most beautiful beaches in the world. Navagio, or Shipwreck...
View ArticleThe Abandoned Stretches of Tennessee State Route 211
(Image: Pepper6181. Derelict sections of Tennessee State Route 211) Abandoned stretches of American highways and byways have an eerie desolation about them, and the long-disused sections of Tennessee...
View ArticleBuilding Roads With Pellets Made From Recycled Plastic Bottles
(Image: biancamentil) At long last there may be a use for those pesky plastic bottles and bags that blight our streets and harm the environment. Several UK councils are testing a new process that...
View ArticleRelic of Lost Railway Swing Bridge Over Caldon Canal
(Image: Roger Kidd. Abandoned swing bridge relic in Caldon Canal) At Stanley Moss, near the village of Endon in the Staffordshire Moorlands district, sits this curious man-made island in the middle of...
View ArticleVisit: U-534: Preserved Wreck of a German WW2 Submarine
(Image: Paul Adams. U-534 while stored at Birkenhead Docks) Only a handful of World War Two German submarines survive today and U-534 makes for a rare attraction, preserved in sections at the Woodside...
View ArticleBeauly Railway Station: The Shortest Platform in Britain
(Image: TheTurfBurner. A train approaches Beauly station in Scotland) Beauly: the name alone, meaning “beautiful place”, conjures a romantic image on the evocatively-named Far North Line. Nestled in...
View ArticleHistoric Nothe Fort Inclined Tramway, Weymouth
(Image: Neil Owen. The Nothe Fort inclined tramway in Dorset, South West England) Situated on the Nothe Peninsula in Weymouth, Dorset, Nothe Fort is a coastal defensive structure built between 1860...
View ArticleCastellated Relics of the Douglas Southern Electric Tramway (Isle of Man)
(Image: Glyn Baker. Route of the old Douglas Southern Electric Tramway on Marine Drive) Vintage trams, both passenger-carrying and rugged industrial tramways, largely disappeared from the UK decades...
View ArticleAbandoned Broadway Streetcar Tunnel (Foundry Street, Boston)
(Image: Pi.1415926535. Foundry Street portal of Boston’s disused Broadway streetcar tunnel) It now houses a $9 million Homeland Security-funded facility established to train first responders to deal...
View ArticleMam Tor Landslide: The Abandoned A625 Road
(Image: Rob Bendall. Abandoned Mam Tor road (A625), closed after 1979 landslide) Known as the Mother Hill or Shivering Mountain, Mam Tor in Derbyshire‘s High Peak has been plagued by landslides for...
View ArticleAbandoned School Bus Near San Pedro de Atacama
(Image: Pablo Garcia Saldaña. Abandoned school bus in the Atacama Desert) There may not be anything inherently interesting about an abandoned school bus (beyond, perhaps, captivating photography), but...
View ArticleVintage Austin Parcels Tractor Demonstrates Form & Function
(Image: Photographic Collection. Austin parcels tractor at Central Railway Station in Sydney) We’re often of looking at the past through rose tinted spectacles, and remembering days gone by from an...
View ArticleDisused Tunnels Beneath Bristol Temple Meads Railway Station
(Image: Newage2. Forgotten tunnels beneath Bristol Temple Meads railway station) Earlier this week, while hurrying to catch a train at Temple Meads railway station in Bristol, South West England, I...
View ArticleThe Juniata Shipwreck in Inganess Bay, Orkney
(Image: Ian Balcombe. Wreck of the Juniata, Orkney Islands) The waters of northern Scotland’s Orkney Islands are littered with shipwrecks. One landmark hulk, clearly visible from Kirkwall Airport, is...
View ArticleUncover an Obscure Devon Military Railway
(Image: Tim Symons) The wild, windswept expanses of Dartmoor are home to a number of forgotten narrow-gauge railways from time past, from derelict mining tracks to military target railways. One of the...
View ArticleForgotten Rollingstock at Janakpur Railway Station, Nepal
(Image: Bijay chaurasia) There’s something elegantly decayed about this forgotten Nepal railway coach at Janakpur railway station. Photographer Bijay Chaurasia writes: “Abandoned Train at Janakpur...
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