Interesting random old pictures

[kvp]

While i was looking for something completly different, i found a few nice pictures:

 

Shinagawa station, aerial photo looking south:

http://marutetsu.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2011/12/post-1c3b.html

(i didn't know that the old shinkansen yard was there)

 

Yoyogi, Tokyo, with interesting train at the crossing:

http://matome.naver.jp/odai/2143253141127899601/2143374700589184403

(i would be interested in the exact location too if someone could recognize it)

 

and an english page, Shinjuku station histroy:

http://www.shinjukustation.com/shinjuku-station-history

i really like this photo from the page above: (from the 1970ies)

http://netmobius.global.ssl.fastly.net/images-stn-shinjuku/1-Shinjuku_History-3.jpg

(imho it's a pretty nice and compact enterance for a large station)

[railsquid]

Yoyogi, Tokyo, with interesting train at the crossing:

http://matome.naver.jp/odai/2143253141127899601/2143374700589184403

(i would be interested in the exact location too if someone could recognize it)

 

I'm pretty sure this is the place: https://goo.gl/maps/SN9MHV8uJVH2 (Street View)

[railsquid]

and an english page, Shinjuku station histroy:

http://www.shinjukustation.com/shinjuku-station-history

 

FWIW the photograph captioned "Present Day Shinjuku Station" is out of date already, the "New South Exit" visible on the south side of the bridge has been replaced by the new bus terminal building. I'd guess that photo is from around 2010 and would be impossible now as there's an office tower in the way (I suspect the photo was taken from one of the terraces on the Takashimaya Times Square building, itself built on the former freight yard to the south of Shinjuku Station).

[railsquid]

FWIW the photograph captioned "Present Day Shinjuku Station" is out of date already, the "New South Exit" visible on the south side of the bridge has been replaced by the new bus terminal building. I'd guess that photo is from around 2010 and would be impossible now as there's an office tower in the way (I suspect the photo was taken from one of the terraces on the Takashimaya Times Square building, itself built on the former freight yard to the south of Shinjuku Station).

 

Correction: ca. 2008, as the Cocoon Tower is still under construction.

[westfalen]

Shinjuku station is like the model railway that is never finished. In all my visits since 1990 there has always been construction work going on in some part of the station.

[railsquid]

The main ongoing work at the moment is construction of a public east-west passage below the JR station as it's still a long way round from one side to the other (when I had a commuter pass covering the station I frequently used it to take short cuts through the concourse).

[kvp]

I'm pretty sure this is the place: https://goo.gl/maps/SN9MHV8uJVH2 (Street View)

Thanks! Being JNR tracks at the time explains the emu on the old picture, but i still have a hard time figuring out what goes where as both the crossing and the overhead bridge behind it (on streetview) are marked as Yamanote line, while only the elevated tracks go through Yoyogi station, so something seems off on the google map.

[railsquid]

The two tracks on the bridge are the Yamanote passenger line, and the street level ones are the Yamanote freight tracks, which diverge from around and pass to the east of the Chuo/Chuo-Sobu-line tracks (bridge visible just to the north/right of the crossing.

[kvp]

Thanks! I never noticed this before while looking at the Yamanote line.