Posted by Jock on September 06, 2007 at 23:40:01 from 87.105.81.146 user Jock.
In Reply to: Magic, Art and Mr. Ransome posted by Eric Abraham on September 05, 2007 at 13:21:36:
Two views of Britain's declining railway network.
The prosaic approach:
ii. Essex by John Betjeman (a fragment)
The deepest Essex few explore
Where steepest thatch is sunk in flowers
And out of elm and sycamore
Rise flinty fifteenth-century towers.
I see the little branch line go
By white farms roofed in red and brown,
The old Great Eastern winding slow
To some forgotten country town.
Now yarrow chokes the railway track,
Brambles obliterate the stile,
No motor coach can take me back
To that Edwardian "erstwhile".