Disused station thread anyone?

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Budapest-Vizafogó.
This station was used mostly for freight operation, until the 70s/80s when they started to store disused steam locomotives before scrapping. After that, the station closed and almost completely vanished, and new commieblock units were built in this place.

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>>1064158
Now only the station building remained.

>>1064158
When was it originally opened?

>>1064164
1889.

>>1064167
Ah

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Broadstone:

http://irishhistorypodcast.ie/broadstone-station-a-forgotten-history-of-dublin/

Harcourt Street station:

http://irishphotoarchive.blogspot.ie/2014_12_01_archive.html

>>1064661
2 major Dublin railway termini that should've never been closed, IMO. Govt currently spending millions and shutting down part of dublin city centre to rectify this.

>>1064661
That's interesting, what caused it to close?

>>1064685
Broadstone was probably closed due to its distance from the centre of dublin, Harcourt st closed due to competition from buses and the transport minister at the time decided it was surplus to requirements.

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>>1064685
>>1064819
Broadstone was the intial terminus in Dublin from services from the West of the country, and Connolly to the north, with a line connecting to the docks. There was an upper line above the dock line which was then built between Broombridge and Connolly which allowed the Broadstone services to enter there, so it was closed for redundancy. Most of the Western trains were then moved to Heuston after improvement works on the Cork line made it faster than the line into Connolly from the Midlands, it was quicker to go from Athlone to Dublin via Portarlington than via Mullingar at the time, with the second route closing.
Harcourt was part of a load of routes which were closed during the 60s to just ape what the British were doing with the Beeching cuts, that one was picked because the terminus was Bray and they assumed that they could use the other line to Pearse without considering anyone inbetween. That line and a few others such as the West Cork and Portadown to Derry line were making money at the time but were closed just to get a spread of lines closing everywhere. The Portadown to Derry line was offered to be run by the services in the Republic rather than Northern Ireland, but they didn't take the opportunity to run it sadly.
In the 70s when there was an urban rail plan for Dublin which was this had the Harcourt line reworked as an express bus lane to try and save the embarrasment of reopening it as a rail line. Broadstone was planned to go to the urban areas North of Dublin, then tunnel under Temple Bar to Pearse to create a cross city route.
Nothing really happened with the plan, and eventually were then reworked to become metro lines, with the Harcourt line made as a tram in the meantime. Broadstone is planned to reopen as a tramline later this year to connect to Harcourt, and the long term plan is to rework the Harcourt line from Ranelagh as a metro, as >>1064662 said there was no point closing them as we're spending so much to fix them up now.

>>1064855
I see

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Germany has a few abandoned stations in rural areas. If you look closely in google maps, you can still see the outline of abandoned secondary and tertiary railways. Train station buildings and street names still hint at the old abandoned railway connections.

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Pic related is a "ghost station" which has never been in use. It is right under the underground light rail station at Hannover Central Station (Hauptbahnhof).
The station is the result of some advance construction work that had been done before routing plans for the city center were changed. It was supposed to be served by present-day lines 10 and 17, perpendicular to the light rail platforms above. But lines 10 and 17 never got the inner-city tunnel that they deserved and spent more than 40 years in limbo before different plans were made.

You can visit these station occasionally during guided city tours.

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Some stations contain elements that were never put into use. Pic related is an empty track bed at Jungfernstieg station, Hamburg. It was supposed to be served by line U4 of the Hamburg metro, which was never built. It is unrelated to the present-day U4, which has a different route.

>>1065340
That seems unusually poorly planned for the Germans.

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>>1065344
The Hannover light rail has been through a lot. Plans were changed and money kept running out all the time. Pic related are stub tunnels at Waterloo station, the very first underground station in the city.
The D subsystem was by far the biggest loser. The original plans from the sixties were to put them into a ring-shaped tunnel under the Central Station and build a large extension in the southern half. Currently, D-west has the slowest service, the lowest ratio of raised platforms, the shortest route length and is the only line to end at an overground station in the city center. One branch of D-south was instead connected to the C subsystem and the extension was never built.

There's currently lots of construction work going on for D-west. Stops are moved, raised platforms are being built and there's a new terminus at the central bus terminal, only a few hundred feet from the abandoned station I posted.

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Eggenstein station from 1930.

It was built in 1870 and originally on the direct train line from Mannheim to Karlsruhe, as a shortcut to the line via Heidelberg and Bruchsal.

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1895 this shortcut was supplemented by an even shorter shotcut from Graben-Neudorf via Blankenloch. This part still exists and today is part of the most used north-south line in the upper Rhine valley.

The line via Eggenstein became a less important branch line. Eventually passenger operation ceased 1967 and the northern part was dismantled. Only infrequent freight trains to a research center saved the southern part, as seen in this photo from the late 1970s.

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1986 passenger traffic on this section reopened as a light rail line. For this, several new stops were built, one can be seen in the background of this photo.

The old station itself was not reopened, most remains of the platforms were removed and the building sold to private.

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This station was abandoned in the 2000's because it was too close to the other two stations
yet the train still announces this station although not stopping

>>1065442
>This station was abandoned in the 2000's
>the train still announces this station
Kill me

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>>1065343
same thing happened at schloßstraße-station in berlin. the station consists of two platforms above each other, which were meant to be served by the u9 and u10. but the latter was never built

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6OHD2uCpfU