Which station appears in this article?

[Jan Mayen]

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Which station is pictured in the BBC News report?

Train drivers announce new strikes in December

Aslef announces a "rolling programme" of walkouts which rail firms say are "wholly unnecessary".

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[JonathanH]

Which station is pictured in the BBC News report?

Train drivers announce new strikes in December

Aslef announces a "rolling programme" of walkouts which rail firms say are "wholly unnecessary".

www.bbc.co.uk

Regret I can't post the actual picture.

A Google search suggests Aspernstaße on the Vienna U-bahn, although I guess other stations on the same network have similar architecture.

Aspernstraße station - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Aspernstraße is a station on U2 of the Vienna U-Bahn.[1] It is located in Aspern in the Donaustadt District. The station was opened on 2 October 2010 with the opening of the third section of the U2 between Stadion and Aspernstraße.

More pictures here https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/t...n-at-the-train-station-gm1130257890-298860218
[The relevant picture shows a tourist carrying a backpack waiting at a station with side contact third rail, and a glazed wall on the opposite side from the platform - the link shows other pictures in the same series - some showing a U-bahn train.]

 

[Jamesrob637]

Which station is pictured in the BBC News report?

Train drivers announce new strikes in December

Aslef announces a "rolling programme" of walkouts which rail firms say are "wholly unnecessary".

www.bbc.co.uk

Regret I can't post the actual picture.

One on the Berlin U-Bahn, from the looks of things!

 

[JonathanH]

One on the Berlin U-Bahn, from the looks of things!

I thought that was a possibility initially, but seems it is Vienna - see above.

 

[Jan Mayen]

A Google search suggests Aspernstaße on the Vienna U-bahn

Aspernstraße station - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

More pictures here https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/t...n-at-the-train-station-gm1130257890-298860218
[The relevant picture shows a tourist carrying a backpack waiting at a station with side contact third rail, and a glazed wall on the opposite side from the platform - the link shows other pictures in the same series - some showing a U-bahn train.]

And here was me thinking it was on the National Rail Network. Or is OBB involved in the dispute as well?
Many thanks

 

[mike57]

And here was me thinking it was on the National Rail Network. Or is OBB involved in the dispute as well?
Many thanks

Press picutures used for railway articles seem to be drawn from a common 'Randon picture' archive, may be a new trivia thread "The geographically most distant inaccurate picture used in a press article" This must be a front runner at c700 miles as the crow flies (assuming Dover as the nearest affected UK point to Vienna)

 

[Bletchleyite]

Which station is pictured in the BBC News report?

Train drivers announce new strikes in December

Aslef announces a "rolling programme" of walkouts which rail firms say are "wholly unnecessary".

www.bbc.co.uk

Regret I can't post the actual picture.

Doesn't look like it's in the UK, it's just a library image.

 

[Jamesrob637]

Doesn't look like it's in the UK, it's just a library image.

Confirmed as a Wiener U-Bahn Station. I knew it had the look of being in the "Germanic" world.

 

[Facing Back]

I thought it was a good question - I liked the design and wondered much the same. I was also very impressed about quickly the location was tracked down!

 

[Gordon]

Press picutures used for railway articles seem to be drawn from a common 'Randon picture' archive, may be a new trivia thread "The geographically most distant inaccurate picture used in a press article" This must be a front runner at c700 miles as the crow flies (assuming Dover as the nearest affected UK point to Vienna)

This sort of pathetic thing happens all the time in media. But a large proportion of the world population are not bothered about the accuracy of these things (quite rightly one would imagine). Aside from news, my favourites are the badly-dubbed-to-English product adverts featuring a 'British scene' at (for example) Budapest Nyugati staiton.

The worst gaff my family noticed in recent years was the BBC reporting on the opening of the Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland. The problem was that they decided the best place to do the piece to camera was a short way up the Schoellenen gorge, so when the reporter said "trains like these [by implication 160km/h + standard gauge trains] can now run at high speed through the tunnel", the train passing behind the reporter was actually a 1960s built metre-gauge rack-fitted Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn Deh motor luggage power car crawling up a 1in6 gradient...

The other common one of course it to show the Landwasser Viaduct On the Rhatische Bahn to illustrate anything on the theme of travel in European mountain areas.

 

[Merle Haggard]

An interesting mis match of photo <> article occurred in a West of Scotland (relevant when you read on!) local newspaper. The article reporting the death of Ayrton Senna was, puzzlingly, illustrated by a picture of an arcade of shops.
It turned out that a request for 'send me a picture of Ayrton Senna' was heard by the recipient as 'send me a picture of Ayr town centre'.

 

[AdamWW]

Sometimes there is some self-awareness of the lack of relevance of stock photos.

I saw this once (can't remember now if it was alt-text or an actual caption) for a stock photo in an FT article about Thames Water:

"The Thames at Southwark Bridge, which isn't owned by Thames Water but is a nicer image than a leaky pipe or some men in flourescent bibs"