{"id":53409,"date":"2023-10-13T22:44:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T20:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=53409"},"modified":"2024-10-13T00:02:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T22:02:28","slug":"walking-an-abandoned-metro-line-beneath-the-capital-of-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/10\/13\/walking-an-abandoned-metro-line-beneath-the-capital-of-armenia\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking an abandoned metro line beneath the capital of Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In several cities around the world, underground urban railway projects were started but were never completed.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/07\/15\/the-beautiful-ghost-station-of-the-new-york-subway-that-was-designed-by-a-spaniard\/\">The beautiful ghost station of the New York Subway that was designed by a Spaniard<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/22\/a-tour-of-the-cincinnati-subway-an-entire-subway-network-abandoned-since-1928\/\">A tour of the Cincinnati Subway: an entire subway network abandoned since 1928<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>One of those cities is <strong>Yerevan, the capital of the Republic of Armenia<\/strong>, a small country located between Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Iran. Currently, <strong>the city has almost 1.1 million inhabitants<\/strong>. In the 1960s, when Yerevan was the capital of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (part of the USSR), construction of a metro network was planned to facilitate urban transportation in the growing city. , which by then already had around one million inhabitants.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Yerevan metro was inaugurated on March 7, 1981<\/strong>, with a single underground line that completed the surface urban railway lines. <strong>This line originally consisted of four stations<\/strong> and was extended years later. After the independence of Armenia in September 1991, construction of a second metro line began, but the economic problems that the new country suffered ended up paralyzing the works. Finally, <strong>this second line was abandoned halfway through construction<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago, the channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@Abandoned_World_Wanderers\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Abandoned World Wanderers<\/a> published <strong>a video descending into this abandoned metro line:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I explored the abandoned metro system of Yerevan. Why was it not completed?\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7TP7kld_0Yw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can see some screenshots from the video here. <strong>Here we see one of the abandoned tunnels<\/strong>, made of formworked concrete.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53255778771_e1ddf67d40_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Old mine carts<\/strong>. They were left in the tunnels when work stopped and the line was abandoned.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53256067693_e27d518d08_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A section of the tunnel shows wooden beams to reinforce the ceiling.<\/strong> The wood is in very poor condition, partly due to water leaks. At this rate the roof will end up collapsing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53256067703_d16ffabd37_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A section of the abandoned subway with two lines of tracks.<\/strong> Judging by the size of the tracks, they were possibly for mine cars, since they do not have sleepers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53256067683_f038240fc2_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In several cities around the world, underground urban railway projects were started but were never completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,16880],"tags":[9904,20342,20343],"class_list":["post-53409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-infrastructures","tag-armenia","tag-yerevan","tag-yerevan-metro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}