It is often said that the Japanese are extremely clean at home, or inside any house or office, but dirty and untidy outside. 'Go and look at a railway station,' I was told, 'and you'll be horrified. ' I went and was horrified; horrified by the cleanliness of the place.
Why do all the clerks and navvies in the railway trains look so sad and tired, so very sad and tired? I will tell you. It is because they know that the train is going right. It is because they know that whatever place they have taken a ticket for that place they will reach. It is because after they have passed Sloane Square they know that the next station must be Victoria, and nothing but Victoria. Oh, their wild rapture! oh, their eyes like stars and their souls again in Eden, if the next station were unaccountably Baker Street!
I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk.
If God had intended us to fly, he'd have never given us railways.
In 1910, eighty-two-year-old Leo Tolstoy flees from his wife and dies in a railway station of exposure.
In my view, Indian Railways has immense untapped potential.
Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.
I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.
I'm proud to be a railway modeler. It means more to me to be on the cover of Model Railroader than to be on the cover of a music magazine.
I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though.
My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.
I can never think of the time I spend idling in railway stations as lost; it's a waiting liberated from the three temporal vices of regret, anticipation or boredom, the weak echo of that bliss spent between lifetimes.
She had more curves than a scenic railway
Railway stations can become growth points for the nearby villages.
I always scout locations first. The apartments, the railway tracks, the café, the canal - I figure out the geography of the film.
I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!
I want to see a publicly-owned railway, publicly accountable.
So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending.
Don't be too optimistic while you are tied to a railway when the train is coming; it won't be helpful for the solution!
I went to a restaurant the other day called 'Taste of the Raj. ' The waiter hit me with a stick and got me to build a complicated railway system.
