metro

History: Beneath Parc Monceau lies a treasure that is unknown to everyone: a disused turnaround loop that was once used by Line 3 trains when it terminated at Villiers station (from 1904 to 1910). In the 1930s, the loop was unironed, and a giant shelter was built there to house the CMP...

The F-4 Objektum is a nuclear shelter located underneath downtown Budapest. Its construction began in 1952, at the same time as Line 2 of the metro, to which it has a connection. The bunker is situated 39 metres beneath the surface, and was suitable to accommodate 2,200 people. To maintain...

Keeping this one as a general thread due to its brevity. Background: Paris Metro Line 7 is just one of 16 lines on the intricate Parisian metro system, with its first station opening to the public in March 1910. The line would then progressively be extended at varying points in the early 20th...

History The Charleroi metro, or premetro given that it features light rail trams running on heavy rail infrastructure, is a strange beast, largely as a result of the quirks of Belgium politics what with Belgium essentially being composed of 2 diametrically opposed regions - Flanders (the dutch...

North Tyneside Recovery Partnership/Metro Tyres, Wallsend. Built in 1956 as a Royal Mail Sorting office, and since at least 2015 was the home of the North Tyneside Recovery Partnership which was used to rehabilitate young people from the age of 18 who were battling Drink and Drug addiction. The...

This Grade II-listed building dates from 1876 with alterations in 1899 and was designed in gothic style in pink granite from Matlock by F.W. Waller of Waller & Son of Gloucester. It was officially opened on as a college on 19th January 1899 by the Duke of Devonshire. It originally housed the...

We sneak into the new metro line in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. We walk in tunnels full with machines for about an hour. They work there 24/7, and we were spotted by the workers, and they start chase us. While the workers get down from the scaffold we escape easily. Visited November 2018.

New to this site, looks good ! These are a few flicks of our trip to Nizhny Novgorod last November. We tried to infiltrate the system everyday for 2 weeks, there were motion censors, tremor censors, cameras for the censors, cameras for the cameras for the censors you name it. But finally we got...

Everyone is saying that Brussels metro is pretty hard to do, and nevertheless I decided to try. Shortly before the end of traffic, two of us went to the tunnel near Gare Midi station. This part of Brussels metro is the most interesting, the tunnels there are built on several levels, both metro...

Some kind of Spanish mayhem. 1. Arrived. Took on one station with raccords. Ran around. Saw rad shit. Dodged Trains. Stayed too late. Didnt know how UTTERLY BRAZEN the locals are. Slept down there till service started. 2. Met up. Went down Line 2 recon. Stood around taking photos of workers...

A night in the Paris Metro My first report for a while and I felt that my photos from each location wouldn't create a substantial enough report. Because of this I decided to compile them into a more lengthy post, documenting the night in which we explored various sections of the Paris Metro. I...

  A night in the Paris Metro     My first report for a while and I felt that my photos from each location wouldn't create a substantial enough report. Because of this I decided to compile them into a more lengthy post documenting the night in which we explored various sections of the Paris...

Last week I tried to go to Antwerp metro to take pictures of the tunnels, but the mission was fucked up, because one of the guys opened an emergency door as he wanted to see how alarm works... I only took one good picture by that moment and cannot express how strongly I was pissed off with...

Currently there are big works going on in the center of Antwerp, which makes it really easy to enter the subway/metro of Antwerp. These are a few pics I made during 1 of our visits ...

All,  Heres a quick report from another Paris Ghost Station i have now visited. Its one of the larger ghost stations and one of the most well known. Ive not been activley posting much as of late due to other commitments but i am out there exploring and got another big trip lined up this year...