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Mysterious ghost stations forgotten beneath the cities of Paris and
London; desolate grand rail hubs in the Pyrenean mountains; metro
stations in China that terminate in a wasteland; Abandoned Train
Stations looks at some of the thousands of disused station
buildings, platforms, lines, tunnels, and rail yards left behind by
modernity. Organised by continent, this book takes the reader to
every corner of the globe. Explore Canfranc International Railway
Station, once a busy mountain hub of international travel between
France and Spain; see the eerily empty platform at Kings Cross
Thameslink, London, today a service tunnel following the station's
closure in the early 2000s; examine the grandiose Michigan Central
Train Station in Detroit, an historic Amtrak rail depot, and once
the tallest rail station in the world; marvel at the dusty,
overgrown shell of Abkhazia's once beautiful railway station in
Psyrtskha, a physical legacy of the former Soviet era in the
Caucasus; see the disused Tiwanaku train station, situated almost
4,000 metres above sea level in the Bolivian Andes; or learn about
the fascinating Istvantelek Train Yard, in the Hungarian capital of
Budapest, better known as the 'Red Star train graveyard' because of
its many Soviet-era engine wrecks. Illustrated with more than 200
photographs, Abandoned Train Stations provides a fascinating
pictorial journey through the little-known remnants of rail
transport infrastructure from every part of the world.
Since first published in 1991 Pocket Jackson's, as it is most often
called, has enjoyed enormous success and is constantly rated as a
best seller in the Arts & Antiques category. During the last
twenty three years important developments have taken place in the
Hallmarking system. Most notably the introduction within Europe of
a universally accepted system of marking has lead not only to the
addition of new marks, but also, to a change of status of several
historic marks. This edition brings up to the present day all the
date letters and commemorative marks. It also includes the recently
introduced marks for Palladium and a section illustrating the Assay
Office identification marks of those countries that are signatories
to the International Convention marking system. In addition and of
importance are the changes made in the early cycles of Dublin date
letters which result from recent research by silver scholars in
Ireland.
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