crewmeal
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Lets not forget the 30th anniversary of this great poet's death by celebrating his love for the railways.
This article taken from 'The telegraph' just demonstrates his true love for the railway.
The whole article can be found here:
This article taken from 'The telegraph' just demonstrates his true love for the railway.
John Betjeman’s boyhood summers began aboard the Atlantic Coast Express from Waterloo to Padstow. He wrote that the final stretch along the Camel Estuary was the most beautiful train journey he knew, and, at the end of the line, a different world awaited: one of “oil-lit farms” and “golden unpeopled bays”, of shipwrecks and haunted woods, all of which he explored while holidaying at his father’s property in the village of Trebetherick. As an adult he continued to make annual pilgrimages to the area, capturing its melancholy and majesty in numerous poems, essays and the 1964 television series One Man’s County.
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