Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: interior

This chapel, "St. Lawrence's Chapel," in English, is actually on the Polish side of Snezka, or Sniezka in Polish. It's the oldest building on the summit, dating to 1681. This was a shot I took of the interior, through the window of the door.

Here's another attempt at getting an interior shot into Tepla. I was using my cameraphone because my film speed that day wasn't fast enough, but still I'm not more enlightened. It just looks like ruins, puddles, and a general mess. Only the shell of the building, and some windows and signage, seem to have survived.

Here's what was left of the ticket window, left pretty much as it was.

Nadrazi Unhost, in spite of serving a small town (village?), is a staffed station that's also nicely equipped. This is the waiting room, complete with a stove, schedules, posters, and a table for cards, eating, reading, or whatever while you wait for your train.

Here's a shot right down the middle of the aisle. The M1's come in two seating configurations that I know of, one without any seats facing inward, and one with them, like this one. To the best of my knowledge, nearly everyone prefers this configuration, as the former obstructs seating, standing, and movement through the coach. Generally speaking, I can't think of what moron would think that using seats not facing inward on a Metro train would be a good idea, as I've nearly had my knees taken out, or been shoved into the seats by rude people, on multiple occassions. For that matter, I think that ALL of the seats should face in, as on the old Russian Metro trains that were still in use when I moved to Prague. This is the system used on the New York City subway, the Tokyo subway, the Budapest Metro, and most of the London Underground (with the exception of the Metropolitan and East London Lines), so it's a no-brainer that it's quite standard throughout the world for a reason.

The light traffic at the hour I did my shoot allowed me to get some decent interior shots of the M1.

This was the rather retro-looking interior of our 842 Class DMU. Ceske Drahy has a number of different DMU's, of both diesel-hydraulic and diesel electric classes. 842's are electric, although since this is the passenger compartment it isn't obvious.

The passenger cabin on a training T3 is also non-standard. For one thing, the digital destination boards are facing inward, so that instructors can tell if the driver has set them correctly. They're invisible from the outside, where they always indicate that the tram is a trainer. Another non-standard feature is the partition one quarter of the way back, and I haven't been able to figure out the purpose for this. In the front quarter of the cabin, however, the tables serve the obvious purpose of providing office space for the instructors. In the read three quarters, with the exception of the additional table that you can see on the left, the seating is more or less standard, for whatever purpose.

The cab was original except for the digital clock and the tinted glass. They've since rebuilt the vast majority of T3's, even the "unrebuilt" ones, with complete enclosures, I'm assuming to keep teenage idiots and drunks from throwing things onto the driver's head.

This was, I think, an unintentionally blurred shot, although I could be wrong. The fact was the film was only 100 ISO, so it made it easier to get in that sense.

This was the most successful of my attempts to shoot a picture out of the windows of #810472-1, which would be the only railbus, and only car, on my train that day.

Here's the best of my interior shots, with the best exposure, basically.

If this is really Palac Adria or some other such building please let me know! :-) I just liked the look of the architecture, of course, and took the shot.

Here's the train interior of the Faxe Ladeplads-Koge train.

Not all Czech and Polish trains are rundown vandalised junkers. The international trains, in particular, are generally kept up, and this is a Polish example operated by ICC, a contractor for PKP, the Polish Railway (If I'm wrong on this then someone correct me).

Here's a shot of the wooden interior in DPP #349.

Ceske Drahy inherited a fleet of Russian bi-level coaches from Ceskoslovenske Drahy, and these are still in service, if old (see my picture of Tynec yard). They're cramped, dirty, somewhat rundown, and very hot in the summer, though, so they're far from ideal, even if the view from the upper deck is cool. Ceske Drahy must have been thinking of this, as well as the better passenger capacity in proportion to tare, when they ordered their fleet of bi-level EMUs, Classes 471 and 971, from a consortium of CKD and Skoda in the late 1990s. The oldest of these is already 10 years old, but surprisingly, they've been kept up enough so that they still seem relatively new. The upper deck is the best part, though. :-) I took this on the way to Karlstejn.

Being one of the first U.S. railroad stations built exclusively for electric trains (although not the first, as the second, and current, Grand Central Terminal, as well as C.U.T. both preceded it), 30th Street Station was nevertheless built to the grandiose standards of the steam era. This is the main concourse, still decorated for Christmas, on Boxing Day, 2000.