Title: Railway China

Author: John Newton

In: Sport 39: 2011

Publication details: Fergus Barrowman, 2013, Wellington

Part of: Sport

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Sport 39: 2011

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There were documents; I filled them out as I waited in line at the customs desk.

But how should I nominate the purpose of my visit? I ticked in the box labelled ‘other’ and waded ashore.

I emerged in the daylight of my own delirium.

I boarded a train that was scarcely a train.

And yet what I had dreamed was exactly this. Everywhere I looked there was something beautiful.

Teams of technicians with recondite instruments barbered the scaly, reptilian pines.