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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 8, Issue 5 (September 1, 1933)

Train Journey

Train Journey.

The peal of a bell, a shrill whistle, and the ever powerful train is off on its journey.

We move with increasing speed from the town, with its smoking factory chimneys and its cramped houses. The shops are lost to sight, houses become fewer, concrete roads gradually become shingled country roads, and thickly populated areas give way to rolling pastures. Here and there a farmhouse flashes by.

“Darkness descends, as we rush in the train.

The streets and the houses go wheeling back: But the starry heavens above the plain Come flying on our track.”

Margaret Davis,

C/o Stationmaster, Taihape, M.T.L.