These are the eerie images of an abandoned train yard in Hungary where visitors can see rotting carriages once used by the Nazis to transport hundreds of thousands of Jews to their deaths at Auschwitz concentration camp. The pictures, taken at the Istvantelek train workshop near Budapest, are a snapshot of a bygone era, with huge locomotives standing in a crumbling shed that is slowly being reclaimed by nature. The repair shop opened in the early 1900s and has witnessed 80 years of tumultuous Hungarian history that included the fall of a monarchy, Nazi occupation and transformation into communist state loyal to the Soviet Union.
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Pictures taken at Istvantelek train workshop near Budapest show abandoned train engines and carriages
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Some of the trains were once used by Nazis to transport hundreds of thousands of Jews to  Auschwitz
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Other carriages contain rail tickets from 1967 when Hungary was a communist state loyal to the Soviet Union
Eerie: One rusting passenger train contained old train tickets dating from 1967 - midway through the @placeholder occupation of Hungary (pictured in this image and the three images below)