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The Abandoned Bus Terminal in Phoenix’s I-10 Deck Park Tunnel (Urban Avenues)” is a video.
Fixed, cheers, & apologies to all for missing this tag. LBM
Paris and Berlin link might not work.
Fixed, cheers. LBM
“Station of despair”.
At one (boozy) place I worked at (decades ago) we had the running joke of the “nocturnal train spotting club”, with a “list of members” posted in one of the break areas.
You can guess the membership criteria. Life membership with no subscription, but not free membership (cost of the extra train ticket at least to get home/to work next day, maybe a hotel room)
The location of the office meant that Portsmouth Harbour was the usual “station of despair” but there were others that members managed as achievements.
Very few “double” members, can’t recall anyone who achieved more than the “double”
Shoeburyness definitely qualifies as a Station Of Despair. More than once I’ve been hauled out of bed by a girlfriend or family member who fell asleep the moment the train left Fenchurch St.
I think people have a odd sense of what a station of despair means. None of the stations given are despairing in the sense many were as the inevitable axe fell. A few come to mind (not the only examples however) – Ilfracombe, Hunstanton, Liverpool Central, Sheffield Victoria, Croxley Green, Bradford Exchange, Birmingham Snow Hill, Broad Street, Blackpool South, Windsor and Eton Central and even today there’s Hellifield as a current example. The barebones rail services on offer at most of these stations existed in conditions that would simply be most unimaginable today.
I wonder if MTR lost the Elizabeth Line concession because of the discriminatory practices in their training department a few years back, under Howard?
It might be because MTR called the police on me (abject discrimination no doubt) and the police told them to sod off! Have it on video. Am indeed extremely glad MTR have lost their concession.