Morning at Ambikapur Railway station

Poets have found trains irresistible. Steam's mucky glamour may only exist now between the covers of The Railway Children, but the romance of the railway lives on. Certainly, there's something compelling about the environment to which the train exposes you - it's the train's ability to suspend you between here and there - outside regimented time, away from the quotidian - that attracts. There's something regenerative in the act of boarding a train in one place and disembarking in another, without having actively engaged in the process at any juncture; it transports, in both senses of the word (Sarah Crown/theguardian.com).

The train is running on the track, track, track 

And I’m sitting in the carriage at the back, back, back
For we’re going on a journey that is fast, fast, fast
The fields and the cows whizz past, past, past
We’re going to the seaside very quick, quick, quick
And I’m listening to the wheels as they click, click, click
And we’re going over the hills to the top, top top
But slowly, very slowly, we come to a station and we stop, stop, stop..sssshhhhhhh

(by Brenda Williams)

Ambikapur Railway Station/©Anjani Kumar Tripathi/Indian Railways

Dawn break as soft light from the east envelopes all while moon light in the west sky fades gradually looks as if hanging from the lamp post, train ready to take passengers for their journey in cold winter morning.

Ambikapur Railway Station/©Anjani Kumar Tripathi/Indian Railways

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”

― Augustine of Hippo

Ambikapur Railway Station/©Anjani Kumar Tripathi/Indian Railways

Listen to the quiet peaceful dawn. Sun touching the rim of spaces' night. Stars fading to brushes of paint In whirlwinds of dusk colored breezes. Passing away the moon's guard To the light of the sun's shift begins Now sweeping into a new day. (share courtesy:Gelene Beverly)

Ambikapur Railway Station/©Anjani Kumar Tripathi/Indian Railways

The platform of Ambikapur (India) Railway Station in an early morning glow
This railway station became operational on 3rd June 2006

Ambikapur Railway Station/©Anjani Kumar Tripathi/Indian Railways

Side view of the Railway Station building

Ambikapur Railway Station/©Anjani Kumar Tripathi/Indian Railways

Old kingly palace of  'Ambikapur' State (popularly known as 'Surguja' State)

Surguja Palace Ambikapur/©Anjani Kumar Tripathi

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