the most accurate to gauge a nations progress is to study its railway network
railways were one of gods greatest gifts to man
if a country is proud of its railways
then it is going forward
if it neglects them
then the opposite is true
in my country the railways have declined alarmingly
with miles of track fading quietly
as it rusts and returns to nature
stations are derelict
major towns are not served
and hamlets and villages have been totally forgotten
shopping centres have replaced
the beautiful city stations
with modernist waterfalls
now providing entertainment
where once the platforms used to stand