TINY RAILWAY STATION

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 122, 26 May 1930, Page 3

TINY RAILWAY STATION

BUT NO TRAIN

A' station has been found in England, complete with station1 master (in uniform), lamps (trimmed and burning by night), flags and signals^ but never a train stops there,/states an exchange. They, thunder past day after day, and have done so for fourteen years; but tho station master still hopes that some day one will stop. ' Then at last lie will blow his whistle!

It is the tiny station of Maxstokc that is so woefully deserted, and Mr. William Lcary is the station master. He is old now, but, he has to bo on duty since tho trains go through. Ho is the station master and the station staff and caretaker and the cleaner all combined. Each morning he puts on his uniform and his peaked cap, he sweeps the platform,.ho fills tho fire buckets afresh, and hangs them on tho picket fence; he dusts tho ticket window, and then he watches the trains go through. He has made one alteration; he has turned tho waiting room into a comfortable living-room, and here he spends most of tho day. .

This kind of thing could never happen in America; the station would have gone years, ago, and the old station master, too. Let us bo thankful it can happen in Great Britain, for too much efficiency and speeding up is terrifying.