Trains Now Departed - Williams Michael
Trains Now Departed - Williams Michael SOMETIMES you come across a lofty railway viaduct, marooned in the middle of a remote country landscape. If you are lucky you might be able to follow some…
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Trains Now Departed - Williams Michael
SOMETIMES you come across a lofty railway viaduct, marooned in the middle of a remote country landscape. If you are lucky you might be able to follow some rusting tracks, or explore an old tunnel leading to...well, who knows where? Or a crumbling platform from some once-bustling junction buried under the buddleia.
Is that the wind in the undergrowth? Listen hard. Or the spectre of a train from a golden era of the past panting up the embankment?These are the ghosts of The Trains Now Departed.
They are the railway lines, and services that ran on them that have disappeared and gone forever. Our lost legacy includes lines prematurely axed, often with a gripping and colourful tale of their own, as well as marvels of locomotive engineering sent to the scrapyard, and grand termini felled by the wrecker's ball. Then there are the lost delights of train travel, such as haute cuisine