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wrong but wromantic ([personal profile] sally_maria) wrote2016-07-12 09:26 pm
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Slow Train

I love this video to one of my favourite Flanders and Swann songs, an elegy for the passing age of the branch line railway.



Not all of these stations closed in the end - St Erth to St Ives is still a beautiful run, and you can't beat the view from St Ives station, even on a cloudy day.



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[identity profile] bunn.livejournal.com 2016-07-13 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
The closed railway that ran past our house was clearly too obscure to mention : Gunnislake to Windy Bridge to Kelly Bray...

I believe they have terrible traffic problems around St Ives at the moment, going by train is probably faster than the car!
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[personal profile] sally_maria 2016-07-13 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Perhaps it was the struggle to make Gunnislake scan?

I'd recommend the train anyway, but then I'm rather biased. :-)
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[identity profile] bunn.livejournal.com 2016-07-13 07:54 am (UTC)(link)
The closed railway that ran past our house was clearly too obscure to mention : Gunnislake to Windy Bridge to Kelly Bray...

I believe they have terrible traffic problems around St Ives at the moment, going by train is probably faster than the car!
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