Sea, water, mountains and me  

Sea, water, mountains and me

As a child I went from the sea to the lakes and the mountains then home........................

2 comments | 3-3. August 1977

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Sea, water, mountains and me

12 events | 2 comments | 3-3. August 1977

1977-08-03

Journey north

A child sat on the train as it shook out of the station. She had seen the trains coming and going many times, traveling right through the town, past the visitors,right down to the harbour edge...

3. August 1977

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Breakfast

Breakfast on the train. The train had only just left the station when breakfast seemed to appear in front of the child. It was a magical experience she would remember for the rest of her life...

3. August 1977

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The journey moves on......

Bored the child started drawing. The initial excitement of watching out the window as Dorset and then Somerset sped by had slowed but she did not want to show this. Stations were fun though, especially the big ones with all the noise, the slamming of...

3. August 1977

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Onwards and upwards

Years later the same journey would be done by car and navigation was done done by a major local landmarks. Above Bristol the next major junction would be the Golden Fleece at Gloucester. This always seemed to be accompanied by the consumption of cold...

3. August 1977

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Sleep

Gradually over time it all came too much and the small child fell asleep. The train was traveling north through the midlands and the land of industry. Now you could see the first of the great cooling towers belching steam into the world like a comic...

3. August 1977

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Crewe

The Journey seems to flatten out out now as you move through the industrial heartland of England and then dive through the green countryside. Onward went the train towards Crewe. A strange place where all the train world meets and greets and parts again..

3. August 1977

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Further North than South

Now we were entering the final third of the journey which is signified by the crossing of the Manchester shipping canal. I no longer make this journey by train but cross on the beautiful Thelwall Viaduct which carries the motorway and I feel I move...

3. August 1977

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Lanchaster

Back of the train the excitement is growing. The child on the train is a grandchild of the railway although she does not know it. Her Grandfather is a signalman and her great Uncle in Lancaster was a train driver...

3. August 1977

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Kendal

The excitement is rising and we are touching the lower edge of the Lakes. This child will stand beside the river and be told there are salmon swimming upriver. She will also meet Albert a gentle man, her father cousin, who seemed always to be mending...

3. August 1977

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Tebay

As we come round the mountains we come into the Lake District and I, then as the small child and now, come home. The River Lune, the railway and the motorway all come into this amazing valley at the same time driving through this secret doorway that is...

3. August 1977

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Clifton and Lowther Station

Now the train rushed down to its final destination past the small house where the child would stay. It rushed past what was once a tiny station where a signal box controlled what is now part of the West Coast mainline.

3. August 1977

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Journey's End

The final part of the journey and then they were there and greeted by family. From sea to lake, from water to water and mountain. long journey for a small child and one she would take time and time again.

3. August 1977

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