bree wrote:peakdistrict,
Thanks for letting me know your reaction to 'Slow Train'. It touches a chord with me, too, even though I have never been to any of the places mentioned in the song. That's interesting about the names of the closed stations.
Welcome to A2K!
Thank you for the kind greeting! Felicitations to you, also!
Sadly, my emotional journey forces me to revisit some of these places each year on my annual trip 'home'.
Another work I must 'use' with caution is Auden's 'Night Mail', particularly Sir John Betjeman's reading of it. A lovely black and white film of this sometimes plays in the National Railway Museum, York.
I would also suggest the magnificent short stories of Kipling, for the way in which he handles the whole subject of rail travel.
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