What a sad story when once beautiful stations are deserted! In South Africa one sees exactly the same with our once-prosperous Railways that are just disappearing. I have already taken thousands of photos of stations that disappear like the ones you show here and even keep them in book form. Here is also a poem I wrote about stations that perish:
Deserted Railway Station
Your once fancy clean station is now worn
Your station master and porters have long been forgotten
Now abandoned your signal room and tablet booth
Your freight shed and cold stores now resigned
Is there no lifebuoy in today's reason
No passion for preserving history for the present
No pain in your heart for an overgrown railway line
Broken windows and murals that look like a desert
You tell the decline of our country once so fine
Don’t you long for a steam train's smoke curtain
Call out loud for help to every true railway heart
The western sun drops slowly over your empty range yard
Lonely
Shame
Deserted
Ruined
Worn
Forgotten
Alone
Weep
D.Botes
19-04-2014
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