Northbound

Northbound looking towards Oamaru Station where no passengers alight anymore. There used to be cups of tea in thick china and pies with tomato sauce and a train conductor who blew his whistle! Sadly no more passenger trains on this rail!

[Harry J Benson]

good perspective and presentation

[Vee]

How empty! Your description speaks of days gone by!

[Simply Amanda]

Nice shot of the rails. Love your low perspective and processing!

[Yvonne]

Life is changing, eh. Wonderful shot, Maggiemae.

[Ferry Tjan]

a Fav!!!!!

[Alison Miller]

Nice treatment; sad to see these old stations lose their purpose

[Ann H. LeFevre]

That is sad- and the shot has that feeling in it. Well done!

[Kerri]

Beautiful

[Terry H]

A very effective, forlorn and sentimental pic. I gotta fav it because it tugs so hard at my heartstrings! Go 'hed on wif yer bad sef, Maggie! Awesome shot!

[Rick Schies]

What a sad thing to see those older passenger trains disappear. I used to enjoy seeing them when I was younger.

[Karen bable]

Nice framing. Draws me right in.

[Ramesh Chand]

F a n t a s t i c.....s h o t......Maggiemae!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Maggiemae]

@pawar_ramesh thank you Ramesh, I put in in B&W because rail tracks are not colourful!

[Maggiemae]

@thendrix58 thank you Terry - nice to have your own rambunctious personality on my photos!

[Maggiemae]

@ferry_tjan thank you Ferry for your fav! It's a dismal and sad phot but has feeling, I think!

[Ramesh Chand]

@maggiemae - but shot is fantastic.....

[Joan]

I agree this has to be a fav

[Deb]

Nice perspective !

[Maggiemae]

@deburahiru my perspective was a bit worrying Deb! Freight trains come through here regularly!

[Megsy]

Love this pov

[richard saffold]

toot toot! railroad tracks run right across the back of our lumberyard so i watch them every day. never get tired of them.

[Pat Knowles]

Where you lying on the track, good job no more trains on here but it sounds a very happy train station in the past...shame!! I never get the impression that NZ is a great railway country!!! Love your low narrowing field.

[tony gig]

Looks like a old English station, great capture Maggie.

[Gillian]

Great processing and pov. There's something so enticing about railway lines - where are they going? who's going to be travelling on them? why? etc etc

[Arthur Loosley]

Ah, another disused railway. I love anything to do with trains and am always sad to see lines abandoned ... but you paint a very realistic word picture of what once was, so thank you for sharing, and for sentimental reasons it has to be a Fav!

[Andrew Sutherland]

I agree with @wordpixman , I also love trains and hate seeing infrastructure left abandoned or torn up... fav from me also...

[Maggiemae]

@asutherland1964 Thank you Andrew - I like favs on sad railway stories!

[Maggiemae]

@wordpixman It does have freight trains come through quite regularly and the business of railway freight has picked up! Different from the passenger input, though!

[☠northy]

this is wonderful! really like the pov and those leading lines converging and drawing the eye in!

[Janelle]

This is really wonderful...love the processing and editing of this shot!!

[Mags ッ]

Great perspective - looks like it's in the middle of nowhere :)

[Maggiemae]

It's not actually, Mags! It's the main trunk railway line in the far south! But there is a future that might happen! They are trialling short rail trips for people from Dunedin to Oamaru!