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This Train...

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This train bisects the landscape,

Between the ebbing land and the flowing sea.

This train is belching gouts of steam,

Hurtling onwards to the edge of my dreams.

This train is flying through the dark night,

Leaving oblivion in search of the light.

This train is chugging through tall forest pines,

The sunshine is dappled and the air smells fine.

This train has closed carriages where ideas are caught.

This train of thought…

 

 

My photograph captures the North Norfolk Railway from Sheringham Park, a beautiful place to spend a day...

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John Botterill

Wed 9th Aug 2023 16:11

Thanks MC and Greg. Fab comments I really appreciate 😀

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Greg Freeman

Sat 5th Aug 2023 23:35

I nearly didn't catch this train, John. Glad I jumped on board in time. It's really beautiful.

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M.C. Newberry

Sat 5th Aug 2023 18:52

Hard to imagine our countryside without those railway lines.
And harder still to accept that they were so strongly resisted
in a long-ago landscape. Nostalgia is defined by generations.

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John Botterill

Wed 2nd Aug 2023 07:37

Thanks Stephen. You're so supportive. I appreciate that! You may notice a North Norfolk refrain in my poetry?
Good friends let us stay with them each year, listening to Alan Partridge on Radio Norfolk haha.
Thanks for the likes Uilleam and Helene 😀

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Stephen Gospage

Wed 2nd Aug 2023 07:26

From one train to another train, I think, John. Very atmospheric.

A nice part of the world. North Norfolk always makes me think of Alan Partridge, although he's not a big train user!

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