Even by communist standards the apparantly pre-WW2 buildings clearly suffered from advanced neglect.
This looks to be the scene now
On one of the buildings of the row is this facade with German lettering from before 1945:
Saturday, June 6, 2026
Fisherman's Walk Cliff Lift, Bournemouth, England
The world's shortest funicular railway was opened in 1935 and transports beachgoers a huge 128 feet (39 meters) with a vertical height change of 91 feet (28 meters) from clifftop to shore.
trams, buses and cars on Most Poniatowskiego, Warsaw, Poland in 1966
A pic that seems to have been taken from one of the ornamental towers of the bridge.
trams and other traffic in Aleje Niepodległości, Warsaw, Poland 1978
From a magazine cover of the time.
Friday, June 5, 2026
an SNCF 231 type steamer with a passenger train between Paris-Nord and Calais-Maritime in 1957
A type 231 is a 4-6-2 Pacific type in English classification.
the New York 3rd Avenue El at Chatham Square, 1955
The stumps of the lower level City Hall spur—which started at Park Row and connected to Chatham Square—can be seen. This was permanently closed to passenger service at the end of 1953 and demolished in 1955, obviously before the time of this pic. The dismantling and removal project to fully clear the 3rd Avenue El from Manhattan's cityscape was completed in February 1956.
a Wellington trolley bus from 1958
The first diesel multiple units of the Ceylon Government Railways CGR (S1 Series)
Class S1 was a fleet of Diesel Multiple Units (DMU) built by English Electric for the Ceylon Government Railways (CGR), imported to Sri Lanka in 1937-8. Initially designated as D1, D2 and D3 they were later classified as Class S1 under the re-classification of loco rolling stock in 1938. Three sets were numbered 501, 502, 503 and they were named as:
1. Silver Foam (#501),2. Silver Spray (#502) and
3. Silver Mist (#503)
They were the first diesel units imported for passenger haulage with the first run done on 25 February 1938. Commercial runs from Colombo Fort to Galle commenced on 14 March 1938 with a journey time of 2 hrs and 13 minutes which is the same time as today.
These sets had two engines of 180hp (135 kWh) each in the front and back. The normal make-up of the train units comprised a power car at each end in a push-pull configuration with two unpowered trailer cars in between.
Reports are that it went on a trial up to Kandy by removing one of the two trailer cars in between (thus two power cars and one trailer car).
The S1 series trains were in service until the early 1950s before being withdrawn in the 1954-56 era and scrapped subsequently.
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