Opuštěné železnice - Rezivějící lokomotivy, tajemná nádraží a zaniklé tratě – Glöckner Johannes (2023)

Changes in transportation methods, loss of markets, or even war can turn a thriving investment into a pile of scrap and empty buildings into ghost factories overnight. Abandoned railways – cars, locomotives, stations, turntables, workshops, and bridges – can be found across continents, including the Czech Republic. Dive with us into these mysterious places. Many things, including the large ones, can become completely forgotten due to circumstances. In "Abandoned Railways," readers will see many of them, mostly from Europe and Asia, as well as from North and South America, Africa, the Middle East, and also from Australia and New Zealand. These include locomotives and cars, station buildings, and sometimes entire lines that served for years and suddenly lost their purpose almost overnight. Such situations occur quite frequently in railways. These "unneeded things" are, at best, treated against corrosion; at worst, they are left unprotected outdoors and gradually taken over by nature. No one and nothing protects them from rust, moss, invasive plants, playing children, vandals, and scrap thieves. We also have many similar examples here, and we have included a few interesting ones in the book. One of them is the dilapidated Vyšehrad train station building in Prague, which, although it was...