“No-one left and no-one came…”
I quote this line from Edward Thomas’ poem of 1914, ‘Adlestrop’, written after his train made a brief stop at a quiet rural station. “Yes, I remember Adlestrop,” Thomas’ elegiac poem began…and yes, I remember Valley Road, the most rural station on the entire MBTA network, and one with the lowest daily ridership level.
Valley Road is one of the stops on the Ashmont-Mattapan High-Speed Line. Although operated by 1940s-vintage PCC streetcars, officially this 2.54 mile (4.09km) branch is an adjunct to the MBTA Subway Red Line. The route reminds me too of another Red Line, in this case the London Underground Central Line. Until 1994, the Central line had a similar rural offshoot, the Epping-Ongar branch. An intermediate station at Blake Hall was similarly “Adlestropian”.
“No-one left and no-one came…”
I quote this line from Edward Thomas’ poem of 1914, ‘Adlestrop’, written after his train made a brief stop at a quiet rural station. “Yes, I remember Adlestrop,” Thomas’ elegiac poem began…and yes, I remember Valley Road, the most rural station on the entire MBTA network, and one with the lowest daily ridership level.
Valley Road is one of the stops on the Ashmont-Mattapan High-Speed Line. Although operated by 1940s-vintage PCC streetcars, officially this 2.54 mile (4.09km) branch is an adjunct to the MBTA Subway Red Line. The route reminds me too of another Red Line, in this case the London Underground Central Line. Until 1994, the Central line had a similar rural offshoot, the Epping-Ongar branch. An intermediate station at Blake Hall was similarly “Adlestropian”.