6 Ghost Stations You Can See From the Train

Line A trains leaving Congreso station in Buenos Aires run past a platform that has not stopped a train since August 6, 1951. Every station on this list is like that. Each one closed, or never opened, and each still sits on a working line, where a rider who knows where to look can catch it from the window. They run from the one you can only glimpse to the one you can walk onto.

London's Aldwych, which closed in 1994, is missing because no passenger train runs past it anymore.

1. Pasco Sur, Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires opened Line A on December 1, 1913, the first subway in South America. Two of its stops, Pasco and Alberti, were built with platforms set slightly out of line with each other, and Pasco's south platform served trains heading west toward Caballito.

La Nación printed a resolution from the city's transit corporation on August 3, 1951. It said that from the following Monday, August 6, trains would skip both Alberti's north platform and Pasco's south platform. Many accounts, English Wikipedia among them, give the year as 1953, a date that comes from the yearbook of Transportes de Buenos Aires, the newly formed state transit company. August 6, 1953, was a Thursday.

Pasco Sur was never rebuilt. The platform was walled off with brick along its edge, leaving a grated gap along the top for ventilation, and it became a store for track maintenance materials. In December 2023, the Buenos Aires transit news site enelSubte reported that the 1913 tiles, ironwork, and enamel signs were still in place behind the wall. The city's subway company, SBASE, announced a plan in 2022 to turn the platform into a museum. La Nación reported in February 2026 that the government now calls the project paused.

The ghost story here is about a bride who threw herself onto the tracks after she was left at the altar. In 2020, a track supervisor named Manuel Niz told La Nación that the version he heard places her in the single-track tunnel between Plaza Miserere and Alberti instead.

"I never saw her, but just in case, I don't go through there."

Seeing it: board Line A westbound at Congreso, toward San Pedrito. Westbound trains pass Pasco Sur without stopping; just after the train leaves Congreso, the old platform is on the left-hand side. What shows is mostly the brick wall. In a well-lit tunnel, you can see the empty platform through the gap above the wall. More on the station: Pasco Sur Ghost Station.

2. Kymlinge, Stockholm

Kymlinge sits between Hallonbergen and Kista on the blue line toward Akalla, and no passenger has ever used it. The line opened in 1977. The station was built as a concrete shell for a new district that never came. The regional archive of Region Stockholm still holds the draft master plans, which include drawings and ground surveys as well as planning documents for workplaces and housing. The archive blames "a small fish": the rare stone loach, which lives in the Igelbäcken stream. The landowner, Vasakronan, gives a different reason: the government agencies meant to move there were sent to other towns in Sweden instead. In 2022, SL's marketing director, Johan Nordgren, said the station is not open to the public and that being there is forbidden.

The legend attached to it is a train. Stockholm ordered a new type of silver-colored car from Hägglunds in 1959, and a single eight-car train arrived in 1965. With no more ordered, it ran as the only silver train on the network and became known as Silverpilen, the Silver Arrow. In the ghost story, the folklorist Bengt af Klintberg told Aftonbladet in 2006, you could tell the train by its passengers' blank, dead stare, and whoever boarded never got off. Björn Dalborg of SL supplied the line that goes with it in the same piece: in the legend, only the dead get off at Kymlinge. Af Klintberg collected the Silverpilen story in a 1986 book, but another folklorist, Tommy Kuusela, said in 2023, in the local paper Mitt i, that the book never mentions a ghost station. The earliest printing of the Kymlinge half that turned up in the research is that 2006 Aftonbladet piece. SL made its own contribution in 2022 with "Spårlöst," a fictional audio story timed to the ride from T-Centralen to Kista.

Seeing it: ride the blue line toward Akalla. The regional archive describes a long stretch of tunnel from Hallonbergen, then the unlit platform flashing past just before the tracks come out onto a bridge over a green area. More on the station: Kymlinge Ghost Station.

3. Saint-Martin, Paris

Saint-Martin, on lines 8 and 9 between Strasbourg-Saint-Denis and République, closed in September 1939 as the Second World War began. An RATP guide told France Bleu in 2021 that it stayed closed because traffic was light and it sat too close to the stations on either side. After the war, advertising agencies used its platforms as a showroom for permanent ceramic ads, raised tile panels for brands like Maizena and Jav. The format never caught on. Photographs from 2006 show the Maizena panel still on the wall.

In 2019, a City of Paris council deliberation listed a Salvation Army day center for homeless people located in the former Saint Martin metro station, with a budget of €316,657 for the year. The Salvation Army's page for the center was offline when this was checked in September 2026, so whether it still runs there is unconfirmed.

Saint-Martin has no ghost story. A search in French and English turned up none. The closest it has come is a Disney advertisement: from July 20 to August 2, 2023, a printed canvas of a haunted mansion corridor ran along a line 9 platform, visible for about 15 seconds from each passing train.

Seeing it: ride line 9 between République and Strasbourg-Saint-Denis. RATP's program for the European Heritage Days in September 2026 included no ghost station, so for now the train window is the only way to see it.

4. Hakubutsukan-dōbutsu-en, Tokyo

The name means Museum and Zoo, and the station sits under Ueno Park on the Keisei Main Line. It opened on December 10, 1933. The land belonged to the Imperial Household, so Keisei needed the Emperor's sanction at an imperial council to build there. It got that sanction in March 1932, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government notes that the company could come before the council only once. According to Keisei's own history, it is said that an instruction came down that the building must not lack dignity. The result is a small stone pavilion with green doors.

Keisei suspended service on April 1, 1997, and abolished the station on April 1, 2004. Its platforms were long enough for only four-car trains, and ridership had fallen. On April 19, 2018, the building became the first railway structure selected as a Tokyo historic building. The station's six bronze wall lamps were taken in the wartime metal collection. A Ueno arts nonprofit has been rebuilding them, and its 2024 campaign for the second lamp raised ¥2,551,000 from 174 backers.

Seeing it: Keisei trains between Nippori and Keisei Ueno run through the old platforms, including the Skyliner from Narita Airport, which passes minutes before it arrives in Ueno. The pavilion is visible from the street in Ueno Park. Keisei opens the station on occasion. A Skyliner tour on October 24 and 25, 2026, cost ¥34,500, and applications closed on September 30.

5. City Hall, New York

New York's first subway opened on October 27, 1904, and according to the New York Transit Museum, the first ride left from City Hall. The station is a curve of Guastavino tile vaults and leaded-glass skylights. The city's Landmarks Preservation Commission designated it an interior landmark in 1979, and its report gives the reason the station closed: it has been "closed to regular transit traffic since December 31, 1945, when trains and cars became too long to be accommodated by the curved platform."

The track still carries trains. The 6 uses the loop to turn around. In 2014, a rider was ticketed for staying aboard through it, and the MTA withdrew the ticket with a letter saying that "the Authority's policy was and currently is to permit customers to ride trains around the Brooklyn Loop track." On January 1, 2026, just after midnight, Zohran Mamdani arrived on a 6 train and took the oath as mayor inside the station.

Seeing it: stay aboard a downtown 6 train after its last stop at Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall. The train loops through the old station and comes back as an uptown train. The local site Tribeca Citizen recommends the right-hand windows. The Transit Museum runs tours of the platform for members only, at $50 a person, with a background check. As of September 2026, tickets go on sale three times a year, and the next sale opens on January 13, 2027.

6. Chamberí, Madrid

Chamberí was one of the eight stations on Madrid's first metro line, which opened on October 17, 1919. The architect Antonio Palacios designed it. In the early 1960s, the metro company decided to lengthen its trains, and Chamberí's short platforms, set on a curve, could not be extended to fit them. Metro de Madrid gives the final closure as May 22, 1966. El País gave it as May 21.

El País reported in 2003 that when the station closed, the entrances were walled up and everything else was left: the wastebaskets were not emptied and the advertisements were not taken down. In the same piece, the head of Line 1, Luciano Pampanas, said the strange part was that nobody had ever seen a spiderweb down there. The station reopened as a museum, Andén 0, in March 2008, and the regional government puts attendance at about 50,000 people a year. A restoration of the tiles, plaster, and metalwork began in 2025 and was due to finish in the first quarter of 2026.

Seeing it: the guided visit is free and has to be booked ahead through Museos de Metro, which opens each month's bookings between the 19th and 22nd of the month before. Groups are capped at 28 people, and a visit takes 30 to 40 minutes. When checked in September 2026, the museum's page listed Friday 4pm to 8pm, Saturday 10am to 2pm and 4pm to 8pm, and Sunday 10am to 2pm, although a regional government page lists different hours. Line 1 trains still run through without stopping between Iglesia and Bilbao.

Chamberí reopened as a museum 42 years after its last passengers. Pasco Sur's last passengers were 75 years ago.