Things not done for a while, 

Getting to travel in style. 

Battling through all the baggage, 

As well as me and my luggage. 

By train and tube with all its delays, 

On a day that started out grey. 

With the countryside flashing by, 

Seeing all shades in the sky. 

Churches with their steeples, 

All those people.

 Cathedrals in their grandeur,

Near where horses pasture. 

With railway barriers down,

As we sped by some towns. 

Stations, platforms, abandoned tracks, aye,

And beautiful carriages of days gone by.