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Western Thunderer
Stumbled across this - a memoir of life as Stationmaster’s daughter at Chathill on the ECML (erstwhile junction for the North Sunderland Railway), in the ‘60s. I like the minutiae of life alongside the railway in transition: teleprinters and coal drops, fish trains and Deltics, a peopled place giving way to a train each way each weekday. You might enjoy this too:
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Adam
New Post: A Railway Memoir in Archipelago
This piece by Pamela Clemit was first published in Archipelago, 2.2 (Spring 2023), 152-61. The essay is a recollection of her early childhood years as a station master’s daughter, and an eleg…
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Adam