South Asia. Old Train Station Train Stations Abandoned Buildings Abandoned Places Feeling Abandoned Flying Scotsman Disused Stations Goal Board Time Stood Still The perfect home for a railway fan? Jump to: navigation, search. I find it a shame, especially in Namibia, where most of the country is about enjoying the infinite space. It does look like a defense system. It doesn’t really look like a farm, but more like a police office or a workshop, with a car inspection pit. The history of Madrid's metro is captured in this abandoned station dating from 1919. The railway, not re-opened yet but planned for completion by the end of the year (spoiler: a train reappeared in Lüderitz in November 2014), is also in need of regular maintenance in these conditions. And also, most of the stations are today abandoned. In the morning, I climb one of them, still in search of these “German forts”. Everyone that I spoke with laughed at the concept that it would be running any time soon, despite numerous promises that it would go live before the end of 2016. I’ve seen your pics, at least you were lucky enough to go until Pomona! The railway forms part of the so-called EAC Rail Sector Enhancement Project, also called the East African Railway Masterplan, managed by the East Africa Community (EAC) which plans to … It’s rare enough that I make a plan to end the day somewhere, and that I manage to make the plan happen even while stopping often. South Africa– Blue Sky Publications (Pty) Ltd T/A TheSouthAfrican Number: 2005/028472/07. There is something really nice I found at the Windhoek railway museum: the train schedule in 1914. But, there is greater need for these projects at present than ever before. My four days in Lüderitz were very pleasant and I’m now cycling back to Aus, and then South Africa gets really close. And it’s better for my traveling eyes to meet abandoned German horses. Urban exploration is also commonly referred to as "creeping" or infiltration, although some people consider infiltration to be more closely associated with the exploration of active or inhabited sites. I follow the C13, a paved road heading south straight to the South African border. Thus, if I want to see the Fish River Canyon, the largest canyon in Africa, I will have to add a 4-day loop just before crossing to South Africa. Sandstorms are frequent in this region, I have lived it a few days ago, and I have met in Lüderitz the guys who move the sand from the road everyday. The list is primarily intended to document South African Railways (Government) or private lines of historical significance. The strongest horses could have reached the shore and found their way to the Garub plains. I won’t be taking the road to Keetmanshoop, and then visit the Fish River Canyon, but will instead go south from here to Rosh Pinah, visit a mine where Ian got me a contact, and ride along the Orange river, apparently a great scenic road. I finally reach my planned destination for the night, the ruins of the Haalenberg station. It has a dilapidated building, two dead trees, and rusty elevated water tanks. That offers me the opportunity to take the most surprising photo of the day: Are they going to spoil my photoshoot of the dilapidated station? Closed Lines[edit] Route (From/To) Closure Date Notes Bridgend - Cape Collieries[1] 1912 Bamboo Junction - Bridgend[1] 1917 Lyttelton Junction - Roberts Heights 1913 Sheba Halt - Sheba Mine 1926 Valley Junction - Walmer 1928 Narrow Gauge. I reach Witputz (also spelled Witputs), and spot two windmills, but nothing else. Derelict Buildings Abandoned Churches Old Buildings Abandoned Places Old Train Station Train Stations Wonderful Places Beautiful Places South African Railways. (the main gate chain is so rusty it can be opened and closed with little pressure). ... fuel and other necessities around the south east. This is a list of disused, abandoned, closed or dismantled railway lines in South Africa since 1910. ABANDONED STATIONS/LINES/DEPOTS in SOUTH AFRICA..Thanks .....Wikipedia. A huge railway system was built in Abkhazia by Soviet engineers, but it was destroyed after the collapse of the Soviet Union. There are 12 so-called 'ghost stations' lurking underneath the streets of Paris, France. Being an urban explorer old and forgotten train yards are one of my favourite places to explore. Pretoria - The multimillion-rand Greenview railway station in Mamelodi is in a state of ruin, with no sign that construction will be completed any time soon. The good tar surface and the strong tailwind make it very pleasant, as I am left to enjoy the bare landscape and the ostriches without producing much effort. It’s dark and I am not too surprised that even a bare crossroads has a name. By 1920, each was shut down in favor of a new route, but not before the stations saw multiple train-related deaths. An unusual opportunity to buy a former railway station is now available in south east Cornwall. Being in the desert, it’s easy to spot artifacts in the landscape, but it takes time to walk until them. Your email address will not be published. There's an abandoned hospital around edenvale somewhere. The slope up to Aus is tough, and I feel the significant temperature change when I approach 1400. There's an abandoned hospital around edenvale somewhere. The statistics of the railway project is frightening. In living memory, hundreds of railway stations have closed across the country and have since been abandoned, demolished or converted to other uses. ... As a result of the 1992-1993 armed conflict, traffic on the Sukhumi railway station was completely stopped. I will see how I feel then. There is no wind, but just in case (there is a “Caution: Hyenas” sign just a kilometer away), I set up my tent inside the ruins: I have 3.5 walls and a roof, it’s not too bad. From the mysterious ghost stations burrowed underneath Paris to a station in China allegedly built for military purposes, here are 18 photos of abandoned train stations and the history behind them. Pictures of the reconstruction in 2002-2004 are here, and most of the rail I see is from these years. Another theory is that a ship carrying thoroughbreds from Europe to Australia that ran aground near the mouth of the Orange River. When I leave it in the morning, I see a sign that I had missed at night: Namibia Diamond Mining Company Ltd. Notes. At the same time arrives a tour bus. Landlocked Botswana is looking at building a railway through Namibia to export its mining products, freeing them from the dependency on South Africa. Let's take a look at the mostly abandoned railway stations along the Peterborough-Quorn railway line, and see what's happened to them and the communities they served. If not found after an appropriate source, then and only then take it to AfD . SA's last working steam train ran on the line until 2005. (Arizona and New Mexico were still territories when the line was first built.) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The 1920s, that is. Haalenberg is the only point over the 120 km of that empty road where hills are so close from the road. I chat a bit with the railway workers stationed here, and then kill time by cleaning the inner side of all of my chain links. This part of the Namib is home to about 150 feral horses (276 at the 2001 count before a severe drought). In living memory, hundreds of railway stations have closed across the country and have since been abandoned, demolished or converted to other uses. Fahrplan, train schedules in Namibia in 1914 The gravel D463 is heading east, right into the Fish River canyon, and it feels like another scenic road with nothing on it for 100 km. Hi JB, thank you for this very interesting series of blogs, they have been a great read … and I’ve still got many countries to go. The station opened on July 1, 1884, and closed on February 1, 1916. The rust has partly chewed the sides and the bottom of them, but not the ladder. I don’t know if this is the bushman’s candle or not. This abandoned railway line was originally constructed as part of the El Paso & South Western, in 1901-1902, as the route from Douglas, through New Mexico to El Paso, Texas. He gives me a discount for the campsite and lets me buy a beer. It’s time for me to check what’s in those red tanks. Indeed, the small town sits at an altitude of 1500 m, at the edge of the Great Escarpment. Check out our abandoned train selection for the very best in unique or custom, handmade pieces from our photographs shops. The rail projects will be awarded up to £50,000 each to progress plans to reinstate historic stations and restore passenger services closed during the 1960s Beeching cuts. And now, just 50 km away from Rosh Pinah, I will get there early and hopefully visit the Zinc mine underground. Please help to improve the article, or discuss the issue on the talk page. I have barely seen any in such a long time! And thanks to you, looks like an interesting spot. As a result of the 1992-1993 armed conflict, traffic on the Sukhumi railway … And it’s quite fantastic. Anyway, from that hill I can still enjoy the views over the Sperrgebiet with more of a bird’s eye. It was a hundred years ago. The Namwater website says the 120 km pipeline from the Koichab depression was commissioned in 2002. The 3 km leaving town uphill are then followed by a 50 km stretch, during which I barely pedal! fyi, i was in Luderitz a few weeks ago, and the railway is still not operational. All Rights Reserved. Because of the windmills, there must be animals and a farm around here, but it could be in any direction, and maybe 5 km, 10 km or 15 km away. It’s, in a smaller scale, similar to the other over-ambitious rail projects of the colonial empires: France wanting to link Dakar to Djibouti, and the British almost succeeding in building the Cairo to Cape Town railway. Abandoned WW2 radar station on Slangkop above Kommetjie on the Cape Peninsula. I didn’t find the rails of this 2.4 km line, that Klaus Dierks shot in 2002 here and there, but we can maybe guess them by looking at the straight lines on the satellite picture. Transnet freight rail is the largest division of Transnet Limited, a public company with South African government as its sole shareholder. My next train stop is the Garub station. The following article on the history of the Port Elizabeth Railway Station was originally published in the October 1986 edition of Restorica, the journal of the Simon van der Stel Foundation (today the Heritage Association of South Africa). I have a choice of 10 rooms, and I pick the one with a door and the best viewpoint against visitors. By the time I am on the saddle, I can call it tailwind or headwind, and guess if my day will be a good one or a tough one. The disused Algebuckina narrow gauge railway bridge, located south of Oodnadatta. More information on the contractor’s website http://www.tubulartrack.co.za (disclaimer: I have no association with that company). TouristLink members rank Johannesburg Park Station, Pretoria Railway Station and Kimberley Railway Station as the top railway stations in South Africa. This means that every hundred metres of the railway line from Lüderitz to Aus account for one dead Namibian Shark Island prisoner“. Indeed, the sarcocaulon has “fleshy branches, covered with wax, [which] are flammable and can even when wet be used as a kindling to light fires“, but I’m well equipped enough not to have had to try it. The nice blue sky makes time go by fast. Since the German South West Namibia was not defeated yet by South Africa, it is written in German. STATIONS LISTED ON THE REGISTER OF CLOSED RAILWAYS 1901 TO 1994 WEBSITE ARE LINKED TO THE DISUSED STATIONS WEBSITE. Saved by Kelli Draper. About the German military in this region, I can’t remember if it was for fighting against the local tribes, or during WWI against South Africa. This is a list of disused, abandoned, closed or dismantled railway lines in South Africa since 1910.. Throngs of travellers congregated at London's St Pancras train station on Saturday 19 December as they sought to flee the city before it was placed in tier 4 at midnight. Home Rail infrastructure Rail infrastructure by country ... Railway stations in South Australia. Eduard Bohlen shipwreck, Skeleton Coast National Park, Namibia. As I leave the Kolmanskop ghost town, the railway under renovation still runs parallel to the B4 road. It seems misplaced … a viewpoint in the Sperrgebiet? I find a bullet in one of them, but no one can tell me if it’s a German bullet from WW1, earlier, or an amateur hunter from the XXIst century. See full address and map. This type of rail is better suited to desert conditions as desert sand gets mixed into ballast over time and alters its reaction to loads passing over which leads to derailments. Too risky to look for, on unmarked dirt tracks, by night. South Africa Travel Railway Station Railway Travel Africa South Africa Port Elizabeth Old Steam Train Abandoned Places An abandoned railway station at Humerail, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Nothing has really changed in 100 years. Abandoned deep underground, never completed or left to be consumed by wildlife, these stations were once part of the UK capital's sprawling transport … At that time, Namibia was SWA, Botswana was Bechuanaland, and Zambia was North-Rhodesia. Norham Station in Northumberland comes complete with its original signal box, waiting room and platform and could sell for £420,000. According to numbers kept in the records of the German Colonial Administration, a total of 2 014 concentration camp prisoners were used for the railway construction between January 1906 and June 1907. Three walls that would do to pitch my tent and remain sheltered from the wind. As in any town planned by apartheid South Africans, there is a township clearly separated from the town. The two tunnels at Sleep’s Hill were superseded on 16 April 1919 when a wider tunnel was built a little to the east. The Botanic Gardens Railway Station was a train station on the Glasgow railway network located near Kelvinside in Glasgow’s West End. Jul 26, 2019 - Explore Alex Bullard's board "Disused Railway Stations" on Pinterest. And also, most of the stations are today abandoned. I am not sure if these red tanks were active until 1990, but I have seen a fairly recent pumping station 40 km from Lüderitz. Kolmanskop ghost town and the Namibian diamonds history, Lüderitz, another town at the end of the world, Last days in the Namib desert: railway stations and wild horses, Mining expedition in the desert of Brandberg West, Cycling the salt road on the Skeleton Coast, C28, Boshua pass, the roller coaster road, Dropping into the desert via the Spreetshoogte pass, Sossusvlei, at the top of a world of sand, The D707, a fashionable notion of remoteness, Looking for Sperrgebiet diamonds in the Lüderitz peninsula, Namibia’s best: cycling along the Orange river, Cycling Namibia – Part 1 (North) – From the Kunene to Windhoek, Cycling Namibia – Part 2 (South) – From Windhoek to the Orange. While having camp-stove dinner with Israeli tourists, unsure if they should introduce themselves as Italians because of the mediatized ongoing Gaza conflict, I finalize another last minute route plan change. All the buildings look nice and clean, and they are all empty. The station was one of three that served Staines, located on the Windsor and Eton line of the London and South Western Railway. The station building was later reused but was damaged by fire in 1970. The station remained open during World War II however, and was used by allied soldiers and Jewish people to escape into Spain. The original station was opened in Harbour Street in 1830, with a second station built in 1846 when South Eastern Railway took over. The 150 families meant to benefit live in squalor without basic services next to a railway line. Abkhazia, a disputed territory on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, has several abandoned railway stations, including this one in Gudauta. And then, it’s jackpot! Grasplatz is called like that because the place was used, before the railway was built in 1906, to store the grass for the wagon-pulling oxen. ages ago (permalink) The East Fort, built in the 18th century, is the oldest operating battery gun in the world and … The Aus-Lüderitz railway was proudly completed in 1906 by the Germans, after only 9 months of work. A few minutes after I show up at the viewpoint, eating something in the shade (yes, shade! (e.g. Plans by Nigeria's to change convert its 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge lines to 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1 ⁄ 2 in) have accelerated in 2020. Also, one of my maps indicates “Witputz cattle post” there, at the crossroads between C13 and D463, so I am hopeful to find ruins, and set up my tent sheltered from the wind. So the work done earlier to repair the line using the traditional ballast approach, as seen in your photos around Haalenberg and Garub, will eventually be replaced by the type of rail seen in your photos at the start of this blog. (Arizona and New Mexico were still territories when the line was first built.) It is worth nothing that, first, trains had a regular service 100 years ago, more frequently and in much remote places than today. Check https://www.google.co.za/search?q=kempton+park+hospital&tbm=isch, New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, More posts from the southafrica community, Press J to jump to the feed. In its early days, Lüderitz received water by ship from Cape Town. This particular blog brings together two things I take great interest in, exploring and railways! Just a kilometer away, I discern white buildings in the dark. It is likely, too, that some of the feral horses originated from the Schutztruppe mounts, as well as from the those belonging to a South African Expeditionary Force that took control of the Lüderitz- Keetmanshoop line during the First World War. The list is primarily intended to document South African Railways (Government) or private lines of historical significance. TouristLink members rank Johannesburg Park Station, Pretoria Railway Station and Kimberley Railway Station as the top railway stations in South Africa. I had passed it on my way to Lüderitz, and will now pay it a visit. They have an “office” and machines in front of the airport. Since the German South West Namibia was not defeated yet by South Africa, it is written in German. Sometimes you hit a gold mine and there are allot of old train relics around even some abandoned steam locomotives. Bridgend - Cape Collieries[1] 1912 Learn how your comment data is processed. It was too expensive to build a railway through the desert, and anyway the Germans were quickly defeated in Africa. Note to future cyclists: At the “Rosh Pinah: 90” road sign, there is a ruin by the road. East Fort. I didn’t know there was diamond mining in the area. At the end of the day, I have gone 100 km away from Aus. Whitstable Harbour is the name of the three disused railway stations that used to serve as the terminus for the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway. On a continental scale, Trans-African corridors are finally connecting places lacking international cooperation. By the way, the nine highways map illustrates once again how DRC’s jungle is not compatible with travelling. At that time, the only drinking water was a source 2 km from Garub train station. Once again, that’s my last chance at the last moment! : Okiep railway) Closed Lines[edit] Route (From/To) Closure Date. Find information on railway stations in South Africa as well as 24 railway stations in Africa, 4787 rai A good point about deserts over rain forests, for historical purposes, is that things don’t change and traces can last for years. (February 2010) This is a list of disused, abandoned, closed or dismantled railway lines in South Africa since 1910. But it’s still early for me, so I move on. This article is incomplete. (e.g. Nigeria. There is a waterhole and a viewpoint in front of the Garub train station. I'll get some more info. Namaqualand Railway Knysna - Templeman 1949 Narrow Gauge. The forgotten and abandoned railway stations you can visit in Hertfordshire. Ian had also told me that around the road are old forts built by the Germans. Kempton Park Hospital is what I'm thinking of. r/southafrica: Everything related to South Africa. Abandoned Mokrinsky Railway Bridge in Chuvashia. 168 November 10, 2020. Does anyone know of any abandoned railway stations or buildings? 68. CARS left abandoned for years are gathering dust at airports and Gautrain parking bays, racking up millions of rand in unpaid tickets. The station was eventually abandoned in the 1970s, following a long history that saw it closing between 1945 and 1949 due to political disagreement, and again during the Spanish Civil War when Franco ordered the tunnels be closed. And I can’t find anything online that would tell me a bit more about where I slept. Luckily I still have a bit of a tailwind, and I am confident I will reach Aus before night. An old abandoned railway station in Bothas Hill, South Africa. This is possible thanks a stretch of abandoned railway, the old Selati railway bridge that used to bring tourists at Skukuza Camp back in the ‘20s. The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) uses Tubular Modular Track in stations to ensure fixed vertical alignment between platforms and trains. It is a world class heavy haul freight rail company that specialises in the transportation of freight. It is worth nothing that, first, trains had a regular service 100 years ago, more frequently and in much remote places than today. It is worth nothing that, first, trains had a regular service 100 years ago, more frequently and in much remote places than today. And after meeting Ian on the slope, I reach my destination for the day just in time. Find this Pin and more on Places Time Forgotby Kelli Draper. A train bringing supplies derailed recently due to the sand. The original station was opened in Harbour Street in 1830, with a second station built in 1846 when South Eastern Railway took over. Also popular are De Aar Railway Station in De Aar , Cape Town Railway Station in Cape Town and Umgeni Steam Railway in Durban . It’s a perfect stop for cyclists! Lost Sydney: Disused Stations The stations listed here are disused or demolishd railway stations on lines that are still in use. বাংলা ... Middle East/North Africa. By the time we finish chatting with the two other French, the tour bus is already gone and I am left alone with the sun and the ruins. 20+ Stunning Photos of Train Graveyard at the Sukhumi railway station. Buying alcohol in Namibia is prohibited from Saturday 1 pm until Monday. Due to technical issues lively stations such as Alexanderplatz or Friedrichstraße were nearly abandoned. Whichever their origin is, it’s still incredible that tamed horses abandoned into the hostile Namib managed to survive. Three years ago, Berlin’s vital urban railway, the S-Bahn, had to shut down major parts of its routes. It has been abandoned since. ⁶ Tunnel 4 (Hexton) remains the longest bore on the 3 ft 6 in (1065mm) gauge system, however, with the construction of Gautrain between Johannesburg and Hatfield, the tunnel between Park station and Marlboro portal is 13 475 metres long which makes it the longest railway tunnel in South Africa albeit on 4 ft 8½ in (1435mm) gauge. 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