History Post #3

Interesting village walk today, still lovely sunshine though quite crisp. Ending up as usual at the History Post which I've blipped a couple of times before. This time, the plaque commemorates the life of the railway in Cocking, 1881-1953. It shows the house in Friday's blip in use as the Station building, rather elaborate for a small stop on the Southern Line to Midhurst. Great modelling by one of the villagers to produce the steam train.

The steam train has been written about by many poets, this is an old favourite.

From a Railway Carriage
by Robert Louis Stevenson

Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;
And charging along like troops in a battle
All through the meadows the horses and cattle:
All of the sights of the hill and the plain
Fly as thick as driving rain;
And ever again, in the wink of an eye,
Painted stations whistle by.
Here is a child who clambers and scrambles,
All by himself and gathering brambles;
Here is a tramp who stands and gazes;
And here is the green for stringing the daisies!
Here is a cart runaway in the road
Lumping along with man and load;
And here is a mill, and there is a river:
Each a glimpse and gone forever!