Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: sherwood forest

The yards and grounds surrounding Praha Hlavni Nadrazi are called "Sherwood Forest" by locals, referring to the near total anarchy there. The police are everywhere, but that doesn't reduce the public urination and defecation, the rampant vandalism, assault, robbery, and other much more awful crimes committed there, not to mention the unwillingness of any of the vagrants there to be even moderately sanitary. The whole station is slated for a rebuilding, which is already in its beginning stages, although there is still so much vandalism that I'm not sure what the point is. Anything built will be immediately trashed before it's even completed. There are also a lot of abandoned outbuildings in the yard, like this one. I shot this from a train waiting to depart.

It's hard to see in this photo, but we're actually looking down the north throat of Sherwood Forest (Hlavni Nadrazi) Yard. Praha Hlavni Nadrazi, while a major terminus, is nevertheless a run-through design, with trains north to Decin, Dresden, and Berlin going this way, and trains to Benesov, Ceske Budejovice, Plzen, Brno, and Wein going the other way (please correct these directions if I got them wrong, I'm shooting them off by memory :-)).

This is an alternate shot to Picture 1, which is easier to see because it's shot on the outer tracks outside of the train shed, making a good exposure much easier.