How fast can I walk in the darkness (without falling)
The meter-gauge railway in Kunming, Yunnan is the world's only intra-city meter-gauge railway in operation. It's consisted of two former parts of the Yunnan-Haiphong Railway and the Yunnan-Burma Railway, linked together by the Kunming North Railway Station. In December 2017, the leisure train that used to run on the railway was suspended to give way to the construction of a new metro line. The rails thus became a space of duality that on the one hand people can walk and play freely and on the other unused and deserted. In the nighttime, the sense of abandonment is even stronger, with darkness almost completely permeating sections and sections of the rails.
I used my own steps and the lights at the end of the darkness to measure the dark sections of the Kunming meter-gauge railway. Meanwhile, I was walking at my fastest speed out of fear of darkness. Reliance on artificial light took control of me in those long moments of exposure.
How fast can I walk in the darkness (without falling)
The meter-gauge railway in Kunming, Yunnan is the world's only intra-city meter-gauge railway in operation. It's consisted of two former parts of the Yunnan-Haiphong Railway and the Yunnan-Burma Railway, linked together by the Kunming North Railway Station. In December 2017, the leisure train that used to run on the railway was suspended to give way to the construction of a new metro line. The rails thus became a space of duality that on the one hand people can walk and play freely and on the other unused and deserted. In the nighttime, the sense of abandonment is even stronger, with darkness almost completely permeating sections and sections of the rails.
I used my own steps and the lights at the end of the darkness to measure the dark sections of the Kunming meter-gauge railway. Meanwhile, I was walking at my fastest speed out of fear of darkness. Reliance on artificial light took control of me in those long moments of exposure.