Here are 9 of the most amazing photos of abandoned subway stations around the world

Subway stations are typically crowded with people trying to get from one place to the other. So when they shut down and have been left abandoned for years, they look especially eerie. Imagine what once was while looking at these photos of retired subway stations around the world.

A few people explore this abandoned subway tunnel under City Hall Plaza in Boston, Massachusetts. It was first opened in 1898 and was part of America’s first subway line connecting Scollay Square Station to Adams Square station near City Hall. It was closed in 1963. This is where subway trains go when they’ve retired.

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Here are some of the vintage posters that were left intact at London’s Aldwych station. Aldwych is one of London’s many “ghost stations,” which are subway stations that closed because not many people used them or they never opened.

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The City Hall station was designed to showcase the city’s newest mode of transportation in 1904 with its glass skylight, brass chandeliers, and vaulted arches. It was decommissioned in 1945 when engineers realised that its tightly curbed track wouldn’t be able to accommodate the longer trains that the city was transitioning into using for its subway lines.

A part of the Porte des Lilas subway station in Paris, France closed in 1929, but now serves as a popular filming location. It was last opened to the public in 2017 for a European Heritage Day when the public is given access to areas around cities that are typically closed off.

One underground railway that most people don’t know about is the Post Office Railway, or Mail Rail, which carried mail between two sorting offices between 1927 and 2003. A museum of the abandoned railway opened in 2017 and visitors can ride the carriages through the narrow tunnels.

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The Saint-Martin station, along with a number of others, closed in Paris after World War II because of its proximity to other stations. They are known as Paris’ “ghost” metro stations. The Salvation Army has turned many of the “ghost” stations into a refuge for homeless people that need shelter.

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Miles of abandoned subway tunnels stretch underground in Kiev, Ukraine. Many of the tunnels left abandoned were meant to transport goods and not humans.

Lower Bay station is a “ghost station” that sits below Bay station in Toronto, Canada. The abandoned subway was only used for six months in 1966. It was part of a failed interlining system.

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