The Old Railway Engines

Yet in the past, the old coal-fired Garrets were familiar to everyone living in the country’s eastern strip as indeed were the mixed and mail trains. In 2009, however, the old passenger service was discontinued but brought back in 2016 to provide for the minority elitist passenger rather than, as in the past, the majority.

The result has been that the railway, which was a part of everyone’s life, is now part of no ones, or at least only of a privileged few. In addition, the new passenger train travels at night so that only few of us ever see it either close up or from a distance.