[Talk-transit] totally abandoned rails

Heiko Jacobs heiko.jacobs at gmx.de
Wed Jul 28 10:30:07 BST 2010


David Peek schrieb:
> How about using "destroyed" or perhaps "levelled"?

railway fans would say, that abandonede also looks very
destroyed for them ;-)

levelled seems to be a good idea.

I just played around in dict.leo.org again and found
vanished
as a another possible word.
"vanished into thin air" for a place of a former railroad where no traces
may be found ...

>  A logical name would  be "historic", but I think using that
 > would be dangerous as it might get
> confused with a preserved/tourist railway.

Yes, that might be another problem besides mixing with existing
historic-tags





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