Idea 2 - Train Stations

Train Stations are another place which is very public nearly all of the time. I have spent a far share of time travelling from one place to another on the train and have never not seen anyone appart from once.
One year me and several of my friends went on a charity raising event, it was our mission to get as far away from school without any money and then back again within 24 hours. Even to this day I dont know how but we managed to get all the way up to the Lake District. By the time we got there it was too late to catch the train back so we decided to stay up there for a few days, not to waste the harsh journey. We came back on a Sunday but found it impossible to travel as most of the trains were not running, only a replacement bus instead. After begging the train guards to let us on we managed to make our way back to London. The last train was at twelve in the evening which we only just managed to cathch. What we did'nt know is that the train only went to Gillingham. This is were the story relates to the post. At one in the morning all of us were stranded outside the station waiting for the next one at five in the morning. The scene of the streets and station were amazing. It was pitch black with not a single noise. It was very creepy, I never saw one person that night. Then at four in the morning the train guards finally let us in from the freezing cold so that we could walk down to the platform. Again, I had never seen anything like it. The station other than me and my friends was desserted. Not even a single train ran through for about an hour. It felt wierd, like we wasn't supposed to be there, like we would get into trouble.

When you take away people from a place such as a train station, it creates an atmosphere un-familiar which makes it uncanny. Becase the place you once knew as safe and familiar is no more.

Below I have added images from trainstations all around the world which have people within them Below these images will be more images but this time without anybody around, see the difference in atmosphere as you take away the most important part from a scene.

 

The images above contain a number of people, the next images contain no people, these stations have been closed or abandoned which is why you can see no public.

 

Very strange, an empty train is another place where people are usually seen in abundance. Within this image there are no people, the train is deserted, creating an eerie feeling throughout the image. 

A very clean station that seems to be desserted. Although it is clean it still gives you an eerie feeling.

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Three of the previous images above are in place to show abandoned tube stations. Stations above the ground with no people around a very creepy but below the ground in a tube station, it seems the atmosphere changes. 

Ok one more thing to the post. I decided to have a closer look into things that I find an influence, for this post I looked into Fallout 3. A perfect example of an eerie subway tunnel within the game. The game is made up of hundreds of these creepy subways which link each of the towns and cities. Getting from A - B though isn't easy. The video below demonstrates a creepy atmosphere amongst the tunnels making it inpossible to get through without having a fright. Ignore the anything within the video that isn't the environment. what I am looking at is the subway. Take out all of the monsters and how creepy would it be to walk through here.