Trains

A train is a form of rail transport consisting of a series of vehicles that usually runs along a rail track to transport cargo or passengers. Motive power is provided by a separate locomotive or individual motors in self-propelled multiple units. Although historically steam propulsion dominated, the most common modern forms are diesel and electric locomotives, the latter supplied by overhead wires or additional rails. Other energy sources include horses, engine or water-driven rope or wire winch, gravity, pneumatics, batteries, and gas turbines. Train tracks usually consist of two running rail ...more

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The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayBirdsong by Sebastian FaulksChitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian FlemingThe Tin Drum by Günter Grass
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Angela Carter
Outside the window, there slides past that unimaginable and deserted vastness where night is coming on, the sun declining in ghastly blood-streaked splendour like a public execution across, it would seem, half a continent, where live only bears and shooting stars and the wolves who lap congealing ice from water that holds within it the entire sky. All white with snow as if under dustsheets, as if laid away eternally as soon as brought back from the shop, never to be used or touched. Horrors! And ...more
Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus

I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended
I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.
Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

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