Easy to slip away
Now time is like cat's cradle in my hands:.
I gather up the strands much too slowly.
Class 50 locomotive No. 50022 Anson slips past a rake of laden stone hoppers on the eastern approach to Westbury on Friday 8th September 1978. The train is the 14:30 Paddington to Paignton service and is slowing for its scheduled stop at the Wiltshire station. The line curving off to the left ("Trowbridge up/down") leads to Hawkeridge Junction, while the "50" has just negotiated the short section of "Down main" from Heywood Junction, passing Westbury East Loop Junction on the way. The hoppers mentioned above are resting on what is known as the "Patney Siding". Thanks to "TRACKmaps" (Book 3, "Western & Wales", 2010 edition) for providing details of the layout here.
I could not easily think up a title for this image so as I sometimes do I have chosen the title of a song that has no direct connection with the scene portrayed yet, for me at least, there is a kind of spiritual link between the two. It is easy for memories such as this to slip away, or even the photographs themselves if they are not properly cared for. Alternatively, how easy it was - and still is - to slip away for a break at the seaside by boarding a train like this one.
Easy to Slip Away is a song from Peter Hammill's 1973 album Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night, in which Hammill laments losing contact with his friends and former flatmates Susan Penhaligon (the actor) and Mike McLean. Hammill explored the same theme in an earlier song entitled Refugees.
Easy to slip away
Now time is like cat's cradle in my hands:.
I gather up the strands much too slowly.
Class 50 locomotive No. 50022 Anson slips past a rake of laden stone hoppers on the eastern approach to Westbury on Friday 8th September 1978. The train is the 14:30 Paddington to Paignton service and is slowing for its scheduled stop at the Wiltshire station. The line curving off to the left ("Trowbridge up/down") leads to Hawkeridge Junction, while the "50" has just negotiated the short section of "Down main" from Heywood Junction, passing Westbury East Loop Junction on the way. The hoppers mentioned above are resting on what is known as the "Patney Siding". Thanks to "TRACKmaps" (Book 3, "Western & Wales", 2010 edition) for providing details of the layout here.
I could not easily think up a title for this image so as I sometimes do I have chosen the title of a song that has no direct connection with the scene portrayed yet, for me at least, there is a kind of spiritual link between the two. It is easy for memories such as this to slip away, or even the photographs themselves if they are not properly cared for. Alternatively, how easy it was - and still is - to slip away for a break at the seaside by boarding a train like this one.
Easy to Slip Away is a song from Peter Hammill's 1973 album Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night, in which Hammill laments losing contact with his friends and former flatmates Susan Penhaligon (the actor) and Mike McLean. Hammill explored the same theme in an earlier song entitled Refugees.