Border Tails

By Swannie

Waverley Line

This is the night mail crossing the Border,
Bringing the cheque and the postal order,

Letters for the rich, letters for the poor,
The shop at the corner, the girl next door.


- W H Auden

Ok, so there's no train, but there will be soon. This is the Tweedbank end of the proposed Waverley Line, not that it will be crossing the border as this will be the end of the line. At the moment we are just losing a rainforest's worth of trees along the route! I still love Auden's poem though!

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