A glimpse at the past

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On Sunday, we took Vince’s older brother and his wife to our old home town. Vince’s family grew up in the town and three of the five brothers worked with the railways. His father was a railway guard and they lived across the road from the railway centre. I grew up on a farm 13 miles out of town. The central focus of the town was the railways. From the station, branch lines went off in all directions. However, now it rarely sees a train and the town has almost died. The old railway station has become a tourist centre and includes a huge mostly-to-scale model of the town in the 1960s. The men enjoyed finding the different shops of their boyhood, most of which have gone now. The photo shows a portion of the model.