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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 5, Issue 9 (April 1, 1931)

Going Away and Arriving

Going Away and Arriving.

“Followed the awful excitement of the railway station, where we were brigaded into various parties and given posts to guard while the business of taking tickets and seats was transacted. There was no play about it now; we were off in earnest amid the grim realities of trains and engines; and our excitement took an almost fearful thrill, as though we had started some tremendous machine which we could not stop… But I remember these occasions chiefly as being associated with calm weather, and long sunsets, and the faint salt smell of the sea across the darkness.”—Filson Young.