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BOLIVIA: Train cemetery is children's playground paradise 2008-12-01 00:00:00 For almost two centuries, old trains from the Potosi-Chili railway line have ended their days at a train cemetery, a few hundred metres from the town of Uyuni. These trains were used to transport silver and pewter from Potosi to Arica on the Pacific coast. For many years, Bolivian authorities have intended to turn the train graveyard into a museum, however, no specific plans have been made. It remains the perfect playground for the children from Uyuni who play on the rusty train carcasses, reenacting heist scenes from old Westerns. Uyuni, BOLIVIA - December 2008./0901131127
popis: Train cemetery, Uyuni, Bolivia - Apr 2012 2012-04-15 00:00:00 Mandatory Credit: Photo by Stefan Jeremiah / Rex Features (1823223s) Rust In Peace Sitting 3,670 metres above sea level on the edge of the world's largest salt flat are a group of rusted locomotives that once represented the cutting edge of Victorian engineering. Towards the end of the 19th century British engineers were tasked with helping build railway networks all over South America. And when it came to investing in a good transport network the Bolivian Government relied on British expertise. Today, Uyuni in southweat Bolivia is the gateway to the spectacular Salar de Uyuni salt flats. However, it is also, and historically has always been, an important transport hub. Towards the end of the 1800s the plan was to turn it into the main distribution centre for trains carrying freshly mined minerals down to the ports on the Pacific Ocean. Construction on the railway began in 1888 and, despite the efforts of local Aymara Indians to sabotage it, ended in 1892. However, technical and geographical difficulties and disputes with neighbouring countries, which ultimately left Bolivia landlocked, all took their toll and the full grand plans for Uyuni were never realised. Instead the mining industry limped on until the 1940s before ultimately collapsing. Rather than being decommissioned and sold as scrap the now redundant locomotives were driven 3km outside of town and dumped in the desert. As the railwaylines fell into disrepair, the weatherbeaten metal carcases were simply left to rot under the hot sun. Today these rusted behemoths form an eerie "train cemetery" - ghostly skeleton of a bygone age. MUST CREDIT PHOTOS BY: Stefan Jeremiah / Rex Features For more information visit http://www.rexfeatures.com/stacklink/IXJAYEVLX
BOLIVIA: Train cemetery is children's playground paradise 2008-12-01 00:00:00 For almost two centuries, old trains from the Potosi-Chili railway line have ended their days at a train cemetery, a few hundred metres from the town of Uyuni. For many years, Bolivian authorities have intended to turn the train graveyard into a museum, however, no specific plans have been made. It remains the perfect playground for the children from Uyuni who play on the rusty train carcasses, reenacting heist scenes from old Westerns. Uyuni, BOLIVIA - December 2008./0901131127
BOLIVIA: Train cemetery is children's playground paradise 2008-12-01 00:00:00 For almost two centuries, old trains from the Potosi-Chili railway line have ended their days at a train cemetery, a few hundred metres from the town of Uyuni. For many years, Bolivian authorities have intended to turn the train graveyard into a museum, however, no specific plans have been made. It remains the perfect playground for the children from Uyuni who play on the rusty train carcasses, reenacting heist scenes from old Westerns. Uyuni, BOLIVIA - December 2008./0901131127