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At the stations , windows were smashed , fences and sometimes even railway - workers ' huts pulled down for timber ... The station staff scattered long before a train full of demobbed men shook the rails and burst into the stations to ...
At the stations , windows were smashed , fences and sometimes even railway - workers ' huts pulled down for timber ... The station staff scattered long before a train full of demobbed men shook the rails and burst into the stations to ...
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Whenever we spent the summer holidays anywhere near a railway , I would slink off for days on end to the station where , together with the station guard in his red cap , I met every train and saw it off . To this day , everything to do ...
Whenever we spent the summer holidays anywhere near a railway , I would slink off for days on end to the station where , together with the station guard in his red cap , I met every train and saw it off . To this day , everything to do ...
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Outside the station , the tracks curved in a horseshoe arc and vanished in a pinewood . Always unexpectedly , the train burst out of the woods , snaking and bending outwards round the curve . I felt I had never seen anything more ...
Outside the station , the tracks curved in a horseshoe arc and vanished in a pinewood . Always unexpectedly , the train burst out of the woods , snaking and bending outwards round the curve . I felt I had never seen anything more ...
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Blue Torches | 23 |
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