THE TRAIN
Sir,-In odd moments of quietness as I listened to the down-line expresses thundering through this city I have often thought of the little line in the South which K. E. Goulter has so accurately and whimsically portrayed in the recent article "The Train." On reading it this household has had a flood of nostalgic memories revived, and I would thank your writer and suggest that Listener readers would appreciate some portraits of those who nightly waited for "The Train"-the woman with the hurricane lamp and quaint push-barrow, the organising ability of "Robbie" as he doled out the evening papers so that if one subscriber missed being at "The Train" his neighbour carried home his paper for him, or lonely "German George." Incidents, too, are well remembered when the train pulled in-especially the hushed expectancy of the waiting crowd for first written news of the Napier earthquake disaster when the faithful train chugged in with the evening paper of that dreadful day.
A.M.
C.
(Palmerston North). .
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 434, 17 October 1947, Page 5
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167THE TRAIN New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 434, 17 October 1947, Page 5
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