('Train Landscape', a water colour
from 1940 by Eric Ravilious came
top in a poll marking 200 years of
the modern railway.)
Regardless of the destination
I love this mode of transportation;
A moving feast for eye and brain,
Landscape framed by window pane.
Railways merit celebration;
They're many artists' inspiration.
Coast and hillside. Sun and rain.
Landscape framed by window pane.
Grazing sheep and undulation.
Farmers’ fields for contemplation.
Village. Hedgerow. Winding lane.
Landscape framed by window pane.
Countryside and conurbation,
Canals for inland navigation
Cricket. Church spire. Weather vane.
Landscape framed by window pane.
The 19th century's innovation,
Steam is now for relaxation.
Let the train still take the strain,
Landscape framed by window pane.
