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"Peter Masson" wrote:



"Chris Tolley" (ukonline really) wrote

"About five o'clock the carriage had emptied, and I was left alone as I
had hoped. I got out at the next station, a little place whose name I
scarcely noted, set right in the heart of a bog. It reminded me of one of
those forgotten little stations in the Karroo. An old stationmaster was
digging in his garden, and with his spade over his shoulder sauntered to
the train, took charge of a parcel and went back to his potatoes. A child
of ten received my ticket, and I emerged on a white road that straggled
over the brown moor."

Buchan could have had in mind Gatehouse-of-Fleet station, which was 7 miles
from the small town after which it was named

A colleague of mine bought the station as a holiday cottage. He always
claimed it was the one Buchan referred to.

--
Graeme Wall

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