Abandoned Railway Stations Around the World
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- Опубліковано 23 лют 2023
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Work is moving along very well on the Michigan Central Station. As a former Detroiter (until about this time last year), it was such a downer to drive by that building and see it falling further and further into decay. Before I left the area, they'd made a ton of progress on renovations and I'm assuming they've done a lot more in the past year. We're going up to visit in April and I plan to drive by to see the changes.
0:45 - Chapter 1 - Anhalter banhof
4:05 - Mid roll ads
5:35 - Chapter 2 - Aldwych "strand station"
7:45 - Chapter 3 - City hall station
10:30 - Chapter 4 - Michigan central station
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I remember going through the Michigan Central Station as a teen on my way to California via Chicago with my family. I'm glad to see that Ford Motor Company is renovating it.
One of my favorite abandoned station stories is Court Street (IND Fulton Street Line). Court Street was used for the HH Court Street Shuttle branch service to Hoyt-Schermerhorn. However, because Downtown Brooklyn already had so many stations, not to mention Hoyt-Schermerhorn station was only three blocks away, Court Street didn't see much traffic and thus it was abandoned in June 1946, over a decade later. While it was abandoned, it was used for different movies. In 1976 in celebration of the US Bicentennial, it was decided to turn the station into the NY Transit Museum
Originally the plan was it'd be a temporary thing running but because it was so popular, they made it permanent! They even ran nostalgia trips using old rolling stock (which they still do today). They use the station's platforms to display the old rolling stock (with the doors always open; this makes the station count as still functioning as they run trains in and out)
I've been to that museum!
Most of the vintage equipment was available for display because car maintenance employees aware of their historic significance essentially hid them when scheduled for scrapping. This was easiest at Coney Island, the world's largest rapid transit yard.
That last one genuinely made me teary eyed with hope
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Simon- you missed the abandoned Buffalo, N.Y. train station. It is still standing, in ruins. When I was a teenager, I used to bicycle down to it and go inside to look around. There were a few homeless people squatting inside. At one time, the station was an architectural marvel, with a high vaulted ceiling, stained glass windows, etc. The last time that I visited Buffalo, the station looked to be boarded up, probably to keep out trespassers and taggers. There are probably pictures of the building online.
Oh- I just went online and checked it out- the station has been restored. Nevermind. (It's an awesome place. check it out anyway!)
It's being restored. It still is only used occasionally for events. And it for sure isn't haunted, because ghosts aren't real.
Buffalo is a money pick sucking New York State dry. They've now got over 300 million set aside to restore a building that Buffalo couldn't support when rail was king and Buffalo was the 6th largest city in the U.S. The Central Terminal will be a never ending drain on Buffalo and New York State, unfortunately. I have been in there myself, it's amazing. But nothing can save it short of moving it brick by brick to Lake Havasu.
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So I'd just suggest that you cannot state what you say as fact, which you certainly seem to want to do, without something more to back it up than..."I think this way...end of!! ".
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City Hall Station’s curved design also makes modern subway cars unable to fully reach the platform, so it’s considered a safety hazard to actually board/disembark passengers there.
Down Street on the Piccadilly Line is a huge missing one. It was abandoned and was Winston Churchill's bunker during World War 2.
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Simon I'm a little disappointed abandon stations around the world what about Helensburgh station in Australia that is a protected site due to the glow worms in the tunnel beside the station fenced tho open to the public, or lake st James in Sydney which is an active Sydney station (saint james) above but below in the extra tunnels cut for platforms that never came has filled with water to the calf and has been used as a sound stage for show. Even Wynyard, town hall and central station had ghost platforms mostly ready that gets opened to the public usually once a year.
I immediately recognised that station as the one in American Werewolf in London. One of my favourite scenes in the movie. To this day I feel so nervous walking through those long tunnels, any long tunnels, because I'm just waiting for something to come round the corner behind me.
Michigan Central Station is well on its way to revitalization. I was at the open house that Ford hosted in 2018 when they first bought it and I was inside the main hall a year ago. Massive progress has been made by the contractor in that time. I hope to see the inside when it is finished.
Michigan Central station in Detroit on Michigan avenue is no longer abandoned. It was taken over by the Ford motor company a few years ago and is being renovated to be the office home of their electric car division.
Yes, he mentioned that.
@@PaulMcElligott After his long drawn out fake narrative about it being abandoned and in decay. It shouldn't even be in this video. It's fully restored not and occupied.
The track of New York's City Hall station are so curved, it creates a huge gap between the platform and the cars. It would never pass safety regulations today, given all the lawsuits from passengers (or their survivors) who have fallen into the gaps at other subway and railroad stations over the years. As a result, the MTA spent millions rebuilding platforms to close the gaps, and installing warning patches on them for the visually-impaired.
I was waiting for him to mention the problem caused by the new longer cars, but he never did.
Toronto's Union Station was always incredible, now it has been renovated and expanded to include exterior recreation features. As a child going to this massive beautifully marble train hall was so impressive.
An interesting observation I made with the anhalter banhof, a few hundred meters to the south of the preserved portal remains lies elise tilse Park, and within the wooded area, alot of the original rails and platforms remain. I wish I had more time to take a closer look around.
More train stories please Simon, pretty please!
Penn Station was the most beautiful Railway Station ever built!!!
"Never of much use in real life", Simon? It was used as a bomb shelter during WWII. I think that the people who survived because of the station would disagree with that statement.
Not a station but an interesting piece of abandoned railway infrastructure is the Staten Island subway tunnel that would've connected SI to the rest of the subway system in Brooklyn. This tunnel is why the R terminates in Bay Ridge, in anticipation of its opening. But the project was shelved in 1925. Why? Because the 96th mayor of NYC, John Hylan, who formerly worked for the BMT and advocated for the tunnel, cancelled the project as a way to cripple the two private subway rivals (BMT and IRT) so he could promote the city-operated Independent Subway System or IND (which opened in 1932). He is an example of being able to resist the interests of pro-car industries, as he rallied the people to go against what he saw as a Standard Oil octopus controlling the Republic. SI's Hylan Boulevard would be named after him for his efforts of connecting SI to the rest of the city in 1923.
Anhalter Bahnhof reminds me of Frankfort main Hauptbahnhof. Absolutely adore Germany.
I don’t know why but I find these railway episodes fascinating
Tens of thousands of people would've traveled through some of these stations every single day.
They once existed a regionally famous landmarks....But after they close down, many of these stations become totally forgotten...
Interestingly there is a 1930s black and white thriller, that used another now abandoned station, on the London Underground which is now a storage area, and was abandoned soon after the film was made, later it was requisition for war work, the facade of it still exists above ground as a restaurant, near Hyde Park Corner.
That is the Lift Access building of the original Hyde Park Corner Station, which still exists in use below the restaurant. The War one was further along Knightsbridge at Down Street. ( there is another up toward Picadilly but I forget the name ).
The Central Station in Detroit was a handsome building if not so beautiful. Interesting video.
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This video has audio so quiet that pumped through a Bluetooth speaker at top volume I can't make out what Simon is saying. Please fix...
You could do a follow-up episode with Buffalo Central Terminal (which is actually being restored unlike the one in Detroit), and Toronto's TWO abandoned subway stations on their Toronto Transit subway line - Bay Street Lower station and the Queen Street line (which was never completed).
god i need to see lower bay station one of these days when they have it open for those toronto open doors things. i want to see the forbidden station
Ford Motor Company is indeed renovating the Michigan Central Station in Detroit.
It isn’t abandoned, you should check out the Kuala Lumpur train station. It has to be one of the most beautiful.
I love this channel but man whoever is in charge of the sound mixing is really bad at it
As a proud Londoner I am happy to say that I used Aldwych Underground station to get home from work a few days before it fully closed.
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Why is the audio so low on all his videos lately
you are just hard of hearing
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Precisely.
Not to "well actually" the video, but City Hall station in NYC *is* still open to the public, but it's in an extremely limited capacity. I'm not sure of the exact number of trips the MTA/Transit Museum have but it's part of a tour.
What a captivating video.. though I wished it was not so short..Thanx a thousand!
A couple more in the US:
Buffalo NY,
Central Falls/Pawtucket, RI,
The B&O Station in Cleveland,
Rhyolite, NV,
Phillisburg NJ,
Clinton MA (partly abandoned)
Gary IN
There are also plenty of abandoned freight depots too, like the cotton belt warehouse in St Louis.
I've never seen City Hall Station IRL but I knew I recognised it the moment I saw it. It was used in "Fantastic Beasts and Where to find them" as the station where they fight Ezra Miller as the Obscurus near the end of the film.
Here in Toronto we have two abandoned subway stations - well, 1 1/2 really - and one abandoned railway station. The first station is Lower Bay, which, as you'd might guess, is under Bay Station on the Bloor-Danforth subway line. It was built in the mid-60's as a connection between the Bloor-Danforth line (now called Line 2) in 1966 and the Yonge-University line (Line 1, later the Yonge-University-Spadina line) that opened in 1956...the University portion being built alongside construction of the Bloor-Danforth line The station was part of an interlining test service that lasted for the first six months the line was open. However, the service was too confusing for passengers and the lines were separated for passenger use. The station is now used for numerous film and television shoots, and is on occasion opened to the public, usually during the annual Doors Open Toronto event in late May - although NOT every year.
The next subway station was only really roughed in under Queen Station, one of the original 12 stations on the Yonge line. It was to have been a street car stop for a line that would have been underground in the city center and on the surface outside. I'll have to doublecheck, but I believe that it is to be part of the new Ontario line. It's not open to the public, and the platforms are hidden behind the walls of the two pedestrian tunnels under the tracks.
The abandoned train station is Summerhill Station in midtown Toronto...now the site of The Beer Store on the north side and the LCBO on the south. There are still tracks that run on a bridge over Yonge Street - there's a Summerhill subway station about a half-block north. To me this one is a real shame that the province of Ontario didn't consider using that line as part of the GO Transit network, having a second crosstown line instead of having all their lines funnel into Union Station downtown.
A good friend of mine here in Waterloo hada grandfather and father working for CP rail, and he himself eventually did. That Summerhill train station was key to accessing the CP rail yard in Toronto. So my friend who went to high school in Toronto, Family lived in the massive rail yards town north of Sudbury, he'd wait by the track at Dummerhill and the engineer would slow so he could climb on to head home for weekends or school holidays. That was in the 70s.
european rail stations are so fascinating to me. I traveled to Vienna & Budapest in 2016 and it was a remarkable experience
Another railroad station to take a look at is Buffalo Central Terminal.
Back then: "Ads? In the train station? What? LAWSUIT!"
Now: "Ads? Inside my eyelids? Sigh.... Not surprising."
In my grandparents home town of Greensburg PA the old station has been turned into a restaurant.
"LOVE" all your content. I'm from Buffalo. NY. The "old" Buffalo Central Terminal has a rich history as well. Art Deco style opened in 1929. Served upwards of 10,000 riders a day. Like the three in this video, it fell out of use after the war. It too has been used in movies through the years. And it has an engineering first in its construction...
There is one in Stockholm as well. Some say it's haunted and a train called Silver arrow (pilen) picks up those who died in the subway there
That New York station was gorgeous, and they should totally turn it into a restaurant or bar.
I think that's New York City's official motto, "Come see places once considered beautiful"...
Not sure when you put this video together but Michigan Central's restoration is further along than you're letting on. It's actually in the final stages with parts of the building opening sometime during the summer.
You're statements on Michigan central were correct a few years ago. Ford has done much renovations which (along with other projects in the area) have already revitalized parts of the corktown neighborhood. And in my opinion, behind downtown and midtown, is one of the best resurging parts if the city.
Oh man I love abandoned railway stations! This is gonna be a great episode!
The Detroit Central Station has been purchased from the previous owners who allowed it to fall into such disrepair. It is well on its way to being completely restored and will serve as Ford's electrical vehicles design center. The city is restoring Roosevelt Park in front of the building. Those who think Detroit is nothing but a ruined city are a decade behind the reality that Detroit has massively changed for the better.
There is more to the City Hall Station. It connects to both the Municipal Building 1 Centre Street and The Brooklyn Bridge Station. Some of the connecting tunnels are flooded by river water that has taken over with time. You can still see them if you ever get a chance to go into the basement of 1 Centre. Luckily, I worked as an intern there and yes, I spent a lot of time down there working with documents older than most parts of the city. Old City Zoning maps that dated back to the 1790's , the approval letter for the construction of the Manhattan Bridge, on and on. It's a great experience and a chance to see a bit of history you'd never know was less than 100 feet below where you are walking.
13:42 IRT Contract 1 and 2 stations were all designed by New York architects Heins and LaFarge. Having used Guastavino vaulting in their design for The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, they no doubt realized what he called his cohesive construction system was ideal for the arched ceilings made possible by the station's curve. Though trained as an architect, Rafael Guastavino is more correctly considered a building engineer.
Renovation work on Michigan Central continues. They have hosted a few events to show off the work but sadly I am not a high enough caliber of socialite to get an invite.
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Another reason why the City Hall station was closed: the sharp curve the station was built along.
Because of the tight radius of curve, there is a sizable gap between the car doors and the platform, which could easily injure the person who didn't "mind the gap". Also, the third rail--the 600 volt (DC) power supply--is directly below the platform, because of the curve. (Most--if not all--stations on the Subway system have the third rail on the side opposite the platform; this lessens the chance of somebody who falls from the platform getting electrocuted.)
City Hall Station closed in 1945 not in the 1970's the New York Transit Museum sometimes gives guided tours of the City Hall Station.
Of all the great industrialists, Henry Ford was the greatest. He built Ford and brought his employees and fellow Americans along with him. And all the right folks hated him.
FORD: with all his flaws (and there were many unforgivable ones) at least he knew how the economy worked..
it would be nice to see employers pay their workers a good salary with pension again..
too bad we have crap wages & a 401k that might collapse..
Semi related note…this held true last I heard about 10 years ago
FLINDERS STREET STATION in Melbourne australia, only uses a small portion of “platform 1”…which holds the world record for longest train platform
If you take the downtown 6 train you can travel through city hall station as it loops and turns into the uptown 6. Highly recommend going on sunny days so you can take in the glasswork
Adding my NYC subway nerd observation to the City Hall section. The original subway cars were substantially shorter in length and most importantly only had doors at the ends accessible via a short open air platform on the car. Very much like the design of trolley cars. As seen in the footage of the modern subway train moving thru the station, the end of the cars are the closest to the platform. When it quickly proved that only having end doors wasn’t going to work with the resulting crowds immediately taking advantage of this efficient form of transportation, they introduced cars with doors on the body. This helped with keeping the trains closer to schedule but made already designed curved platforms a problem. This was solved with mechanical platform extenders in other original stations but it was decided that this wasn’t viable at the City Hall station. Why? Personally not sure. A possible factor is that the City Hall station was built more as a political ploy than as a needed stop along the route.
For all of u who thought Piccadilly circus was in the city of London, you need to catch up on your cgp Grey.
Hopefully Oakland, CA will make the second episode of this series.
Alright going to throw this one out there- the entire Cincinnati subway system!
Montevideo Central Station is abandoned since 20 years ago. We are fighting to reopen it for train service.
Hey is that picture on that thumbnail Michigan Central station on Michigan avenue in Detroit?
Simon. You should’ve included the Buffalo Central Terminal here in Buffalo, NY, USA.
One major mistake you made, Simon.
City Hall Station closed in 1945, not 1965.
And if it was considered as a spot for the transit museum, it wasn’t considered long, since Court Street offered them much more capacity, being a station with two much longer tracks that could display the wider BMT/IND sized trains and a full length mezzanine level that allowed for more exhibition space and also allowed for office, work and retail space.
No mention of London's beautiful Crystal Palace station??
The closed underground stations were used as bomb shelters in the second world war in built up areas or turned into underground offices for official personal including the war department and some of them are still set up as emergency offices with the track covered .
Poor North Woolwich ( may be back as a church centre ), and Highgate (High Level)
Do abandoned airports!!!!!!
Could be 2 hours of just US stations
Michigan Central Station is kinda awesome now.
Geographics video on Detroit when? I think it would be fascinating!
City Hall closed in 1945, not 1965. 1965 was when the Transit Museum considered using it.
Wait Simon! It is not empty, it has been redeveloped by the Ford Motor Company and MAY have a corner of it put back in service as a station!
If you ever visit Berlin go to the DTM - it is huge.
There is some parts of the platforms of anhalter bahnhof left in the park behind, all renatured.
When talking about Michigan Central Station, you showed a picture of the Packard plant…😂
Amtrak moved out of Detroit Central to a new station where it can serve with the same trains Pontiac.
Shame you missed Windsor Station and North Toronto Stations in Canada. Very interesting histories
You stated that NYC's City Hall station closed in 1968...This is incorrect. The station closed in 1945 when IRT trains went from 5 to 10 cars and the station was unable to support 10 car use.
I could swear that I have seen City Hall Station in movies.
That station that was in all those movies, it was in Hudson Hawk. You're welcome
In New York, unlike other states, the Supreme Court is actually the first level of courts where trials are held, not the highest court of appeals. So if the Supreme Court ruled on the advertisements, the case... Only went to one court.
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ford has restored michigan central station and its amazing. maybe you can do a nother story on how ford restored this land mark
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Our boy Simon is classier than that!
plus Buffalo Central Terminal, Simon.
I realize you did a whole show on the Moscow subway, but it didn't get a mention? A plug for the Moscow show ...
Even the Washington DC abandoned stops got left out. 😞
Sequel! Sequel! Sequel!!!
I remember City Hall Station. It's inaccessible to the public.....but not inaccessible. Used to be a hangout for truants in the 80s. Or, uh, so I've heard.🤐😉
Before watching: Is that the front of MCS on the thumbnail?! Love that place. Beautifully wide ledge on the rooftop totally safe for walking… not that I’d know… I mean what? 😂 not much to look at inside tho, thanks looters. Plus an LA film crew added some disrespectful graffiti inside…
9:54 The NYC mayor's name is pronounced like Kotch, not Cock.
Does Simon sleep?
He has a circadian half cycler, so no he does not
I think he's a dolphin, only one half of the brain sleeps at any time