Sad and Lonely
You see some interesting things from a railway carriage. You can look into private worlds as you pass; you catch glimpses of things that you wouldn’t normally see and get a snapshot of life as we all live it.
Well here’s something interesting that I snapped from a passing train
This would have to be one of the loneliest cemeteries in Australia. It was once close to a bustling mining area but the coal mines limestone south of Dover in Tasmania closed ran out and the people moved away … leaving their dead behind them.
Here there is nothing but headstones, ferns and the wind that blows almost every day. It’s lonely here and there is no way to visit this cemetery other than the train … that only runs occasionally.
The train I took this from was the morning tourist trip on the Ida Bay Railway - the most southerly railway in Australia.
December 26th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
[...] With locomotives like this Malcolm Moore on the roster and a background of hauling limestone in a very lonely part of the world it’s hard not to find the Ida Bay Railway interesting. Just how lonely it can be down there on the Ida Bay Railway you’ll see when you read Sad and Lonely [...]