Last stop before the apocalypse.
My first trip on the Sydney subway kind of threw me. I was expecting something shiny and modern.
The Sydney subway is anything but that.
Oh, it’s got its modern bits for sure (train schedule updates, station info, ticket machines and turnstiles), but the bulk of it seems old. Very old.
We’re talking like steampunk-type old.
But that’s kind of cool. It was a neat change from the stations of Seoul and Tokyo. For one thing, the platform/track area is freaking huge.I know the station gets its name from being near the museum, but damned if that platform area doesn’t seem big enough to hold a museum itself.The train cars are pretty unusual too. Big, double-decker jobbies that seem more like cattle cars for humans than regular subway cars. Some of them feel very old, and their non-standard appearance lends itself to the whole “last train out of the doomed city” vibe I was getting from the system.
(The train photos are from a different station, but the same ones run all over the city. I was on my way somewhere when I was in Museum Station and didn’t want to hang out to take train photos.)
Annoyingly though, the trains cost more than in Tokyo. So while it would’ve been cool to cruise around town on them for a bit, the money/time equation didn’t really add up.
I guess this little subway/steampunk daydream begs the question: if Sydney’s the bombed-out city everybody’s escaping…
Where are they going?