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Passengers waiting under a platform canopy in snow, with a sign reading Bahnsteig 2 u 1

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Rails, platforms and boats, and the timetables that hold them to the minute.

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Kreiensen, 1963

A junction station in Lower Saxony, photographed on a January morning, with the platform furniture of a railway that expected to be used.

  1. Report

    The spiral at Brusio

    To lose height without losing grip, the Bernina line turns a full circle in the open air on a stone viaduct.

  2. Photo Essay

    Flinders Street, 1927

    A city photographed at the hour when its station is doing all the work at once.

Michael Gäbler / CC BY 3.0

5 stories · July – September · Page 1 of 2

  1. Field Note

    The catamaran at Panormitis

    A fast ferry in a bay with one building on it, on a route where speed is the whole product.

    By Rafael Viana · 1 min