[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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