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Images of a Junkyard Filled With Rusty Cars (Australia)
(Image: Darkday; old rusty cars in an Australian junkyard) Australian urban exploration photographer Darkday photographed this junkyard filled with old rusty cars awaiting the scrapheap. Ford trucks...
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This Germany Train Cemetery is Home to Withdrawn Soviet Locomotives
(Image: Eike Ramba; defunct Soviet-era locomotives) Known to urban explorers as Komplex M., this neglected railway yard, stocked with decrepit locomotives, is understood to have been built in the...
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Abandoned Fiat 600 Multiplas (Location Unknown)
(Image: Hugo Cardoso; abandoned Fiat 600 Multipla) At just 10 feet in length, the Italian-designed Fiat 600 was produced to the tune of over 2.5 million cars between 1955 and 1969, and became an icon...
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Rusting British Rail Class 100 Diesel Multiple Unit
(Image: Tony Williams; British Rail Class 100 51118/56097) Diesel multiple unit, or DMUs, may not stir the imagination like the great steam engines of old, or indeed the heavy diesel locomotives that...
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Abandoned Highgate High Level Station, London
(Image: David Martin; abandoned Highgate High Level station) There’s something about empty, disused train platforms that manages to be both creepy and moving, all at once. The abandoned Highgate High...
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Aérotrain Cab Resembles Cockpit of a WW2 Fighter Plane
(Image: Robin Brinaert – Facebook/website; Aérotrain 02 ‘cockpit’) The Aérotrain, a failed yet innovative 1970s transport prototype, is now seen as something of a denizen of retro-futurism. And...
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An Abandoned Vintage Bus in Lancashire
(Image: Sarah L Davies/LittleLens; abandoned bus in Lancashire, UK) Rusting away in field somewhere in Lancashire, North West England, this abandoned bus cuts a sorry sight on the landscape. The...
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11 Unbuilt Metros & Failed Rapid Transit Systems
(Explore the world’s unbuilt metros and proposed urban transit infrastructure) There’s something uniquely fascinating about unbuilt metros and other unfinished subway lines. The idea that – hidden...
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Abandoned Horse-Drawn Wagon at Beamish Museum
(Image: Dennis Cockburn; abandoned horse-drawn wagon at Beamish Museum) This abandoned horse-drawn wagon is a noticeable departure from the vintage trams that usually rattle along the cobbled streets...
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The Deserted Tram Depot, Where Ghostly No. 10 Stands Ready
(Image: Alessandro Sicco – website; a deserted tram depot) Enter a deserted tram depot, where the ghostly forms of abandoned trams still stand on rusting tracks. Heavily graffitied, it’s almost as if...
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Laser Sailing Dinghy Abandoned Hull Disposal
(Image: Isabelle Jackson; Abandoned Laser sailing dinghy hull disposal) As a lapsed Laser sailor who edits a blog covering all things decrepit and old, I decided to find out what happened to abandoned...
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Queen of Sidney: Abandoned Ferry on the Fraser River
(Image: Paul Rioux; abandoned MV Queen of Sidney rusting away on the Fraser River) Just two Sidney Class ferries were built for the British Columbia Ferry Corporation, entering service in 1960. The...
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End of the Road for Wrecked Smartcar
(Image: rustdreamer; crashed Smartcar) You don’t see too many abandoned Smartcars these days, but this unfortunate wreck is one of the exceptions. The vehicle was spotted in a scrapyard in Cornwall in...
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Abandoned Park and Ride in Chineham, Hampshire
(Image: Scriniary; Chineham’s abandoned park and ride near Basingstoke station) With car parking in urban centres at a premium, and commuters eager to leave their vehicles near transport facilities in...
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1937 Car Crash Near Grimston Bar, North Yorkshire
(Image: Alfred Thomson; 1937 car crash near Grimston Bar) Uploaded by Alfred Thomson to the Geograph website, this black and white image shows a vintage car crash scene near Grimston Bar on the...
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Keep ‘Em Flying: Awesome Dieselpunk Art
(Dieselpunk art by Stefan Prohaczka) If steampunk combines a neo-Victorian aesthetic with retro-futuristic inventions, dieselpunk is its post-World War Two, 1950s cousin. The term “dieselpunk” didn’t...
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Navigation Markers: 7 Defunct Daymarks & Beacons
(Explore the defunct navigation markers, daymarks and beacons of the British Isles) Subscribers of Urban Ghosts will be familiar with the wealth of abandoned lighthouses dotting the coastlines of the...
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9 Abandoned Bus Stations, Depots & Terminals
(Image: Brandon Bartoszek; abandoned bus stations and derelict coach depots) For places that are jumping off points for millions of adventures, bus stations and depots have an unfortunate habit for...
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Defunct Vehicles Make for High Desert Art Installation
(All images by ; defunct vehicles turned art in the Nevada desert) Off US Route 95 at Goldfield, in the high desert of Nevada, USA, is a bizarre cemetery of long-defunct vehicles where abandoned cars,...
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Abandoned Aérotrain Test Tracks at Gometz-le-Châtel, France
(All images by Boreally.org; the abandoned Aérotrain test tracks at Gometz-le-Châtel) Near the small commune of Gometz-le-Châtel in the department of Essonne, south of Versailles, stands the silent...
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