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The-train moved slowly out from the glass and steel raised slab of the new edge-of-Town main-line high-speed railway-platform, running alongside the banking blank back of high-street shops, and the station car-park, awaiting return. Into harvested-fields and open-grazed pastures below remaining precipitous pine-forest. Alongside planted-poplar windbreak, shielded. Through the trees, the new days' sun appeared, speared, blinking-awake. Burst through the carriage breaking beyond the blue grey staged and staggered, rolled and ranged. From the east-peaked, settling yellow-orange onto the western-hills. Shadow-flanking purple-green valleys, and up-country the grid-framed farmed plains, where the day was already begun. Grey white steam lifted across a drying-up estuary. In thinrain spluttering, over an elevated iron-riveted painted girder-bridge, built-on pillars of a deep-red local stone and brickwork, arched and breached. With the Suns'-rays the train rattled-on. Emergent, as through a fog over a beached river, onto the other-side of a ravenous gaping-gorge. Over-spilling through the outskirts of a recently built-up ancient sea-harbour and river port, suburban edge-of-Town. High-rise housing-project, and Industrial-Units, Business-Park, and Shopping-Mall. Home-furniture, Motor-Car showrooms. Salesrooms, cheap-hotel and motel. Linked razor-wire fenced, chained-in. A horse-paddock, gated and padlocked, adjacent to a blue-green to red-waiting train-crossing signal. Freight-Train, privileged-over passenger passaged prerogative, thundering-by: The Passenger Train: trundling along now, beside a chequered black and yellow train-crossing. Arterial hot tar-road weighted heavy and ever busy with 'bus and coach, cycle and motor cycle. Car engine chassis and trailer, caravan motor-home. Articulated. Juggernaut, boxed container shipments on-board. Onto and beneath the over-passing concrete-highway into, and out of Town. All traffic travelling with one accord. To-and-from galvanized corrugated iron steel and zinc tin roved roofing between brick and-cinderblock doorways, loading and unloading bays beneath open canopy entrances letter and number laser bar-coded, and secured. Air-extracting, for the most-part to the outside world, unseen. As windowless, between belching cooling-tower, pylon-linking electric-welding workshop engineering factory-crafted, machined and hand made goods and garages. Food, and Furniture, packaged, warehoused, and shipped to-and-from the City-Ports and Portals co-modifying in-return stock-yards stacked-up and in-exchange, value-assured, awaiting transport: to-and-from: Home and Away.(required)

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