Urban exploration of places concerning transportation.
Abandoned train station somewhere in Belgium. I didn’t had the opportunity to explore the old station in itself, as it is now used by a local association, but a little bit further on the old tracks there are still some decaying locomotives and wagons…
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Abandoned train repair shop somewhere in Belgium. I had this place on my todo list for some time already, but I always had another place to go explore. I’ve finally decided to go there and take a look at it, or more exactly, it was on my way home that day…
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Abandoned metro station somewhere in Belgium. Belgium is known as the country of surrealism and that’s not for nothing. The city where this metro station is located had great projects: they built a metro to improve the mobility, unfortunately, some parts of it have been left abandoned after being built…
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This is an abandoned railyard repair workshop somewhere in Belgium. This site had been abandoned in 1979, due to a very important gas explosion that killed one worker. One can still see the place where the explosion occured in the basement of the building. There’s not much left, the building is pretty empty but still a nice place to see.
Abandoned train station somewhere in Belgium. This is a very little station located in a small town. There wasn’t very much to see there, the place is quite empty and probably used by occasional squatters. I don’t know when neither why it’s been abandoned. You can still sit there on the platforms and do some trainspotting as trains are still passing by, but just don’t expect any of these to stop for you…
Abandoned railway depot somewhere in Belgium. This abandoned depot lies next to a station that’s still in use. I don’t know why it’s been abandoned, and there’s not much to see in it, just mother nature reclaiming its due…
This is an old depot of the belgian rail company (SNCB). It was used as a locomotive graveyard. Inside the depot and on the railway tracks in front of it, one could find a lot of old locomotives. I went back there recently, the depot is for sale now, and all the old beautiful locomotives have disappeared. There just stood two locomotives on which it was written “sold”. I guess they sold it for the steel…