Abandoned Engineering - Season 2 - Eps 5: The Abandoned Nazi Railway
The Canfranc Railway Station is an elaborate abandoned Nazi railway station built near a town of only 500 people in the Pyrenees in Spain. But why was it built there and what secrets does it hold? Also examined in this episode is the Salton Sea Navy Base in California - a military post in the middle of the desert in the American west, the Kola Superdeep borehole - a wrecked record-holding Arctic facility in Russia that goes deep, deep underground, and a huge tower looming over an industrial area in Belgium. All of these extraordinary places and objects were at the cutting edge of design and construction, but now they stand disused, sometimes contaminated and sometimes dangerous.
About Abandoned Engineering
Title: Abandoned Engineering
First Air Date: 2017-02-18
Last Air Date: 2025-03-28
Status: Returning Series
Rating: 7.3/10 (from 11 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 14
Total Episodes: 133
Network: U&Yesterday
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: Like A Shot Entertainment
Synopsis
These are some of the most spectacular examples of abandoned engineering the world has ever known. The series explores how and why they were built, consider the financial and social costs of their failure and examine the environmental and ecological impacts. The series also explores how experts came up with plans to make something beautiful or useful from the ruins.
Cast
Tom Ward
Self - Narrator
