Poets
have found trains irresistible. Steam's mucky glamour may only
exist now between the covers of The Railway Children, but the romance of
the railway lives on. Certainly, there's something compelling about the
environment to which the train exposes you - it's the train's ability
to suspend you between here and there - outside
regimented time, away from the quotidian - that attracts. There's
something regenerative in the act of boarding a train in one place and
disembarking in another, without having actively engaged in the process
at any juncture; it transports, in both senses of the word (Sarah Crown/theguardian.com).
The train is running on the track, track, track
And I’m sitting in the carriage at the back, back, back
For we’re going on a journey that is fast, fast, fast
The fields and the cows whizz past, past, past
We’re going to the seaside very quick, quick, quick
And I’m listening to the wheels as they click, click, click
And we’re going over the hills to the top, top top
But slowly, very slowly, we come to a station and we stop, stop, stop..sssshhhhhhh
(by Brenda Williams)
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| Ambikapur Railway Station/©Anjani Kumar Tripathi/Indian Railways |
Dawn break as soft light from the east envelopes all while moon light in
the west sky fades gradually looks as if hanging from the lamp post,
train ready to take passengers for their journey in cold winter morning.
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| Ambikapur Railway Station/©Anjani Kumar Tripathi/Indian Railways |
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
―
Augustine of Hippo
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| Ambikapur Railway Station/©Anjani Kumar Tripathi/Indian Railways |
Listen to the quiet peaceful dawn.
Sun touching the rim of spaces' night.
Stars fading to brushes of paint
In whirlwinds of dusk colored breezes.
Passing away the moon's guard
To the light of the sun's shift begins
Now sweeping into a new day.
(share courtesy:Gelene Beverly)
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| Ambikapur Railway Station/©Anjani Kumar Tripathi/Indian Railways |
The platform of Ambikapur (India) Railway Station in an early morning glow
This railway station became operational on 3rd June 2006
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| Ambikapur Railway Station/©Anjani Kumar Tripathi/Indian Railways |
Side view of the Railway Station building
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| Ambikapur Railway Station/©Anjani Kumar Tripathi/Indian Railways |
Old kingly palace of 'Ambikapur' State (popularly known as 'Surguja' State)
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| Surguja Palace Ambikapur/©Anjani Kumar Tripathi |
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