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Nefiston Station

It's eight o'clock in the morning; 1 hear a voice give out a warning: "The 8.03 from Glasgow is departing now, twenty minutes late." 1 lean against the chipped red gate; 1 hear my friends' loud chatter, as they talk about their great weekend, But in my head I'm still asleep and it's driving me round the bend. All of a sudden, 1 hear rattle, chug, chug through the gentle rain. 1 wake up slightly; 1 know this sound Yes, I'm right, it is the train! 1 see a woman struggling with her pram and her son, So I think to myself at this time in the morning that can't be fun! Ah, we chug, chug, along, The train sings its usual song, A little chug, rattle here, a little chug, rattle there. Then we stop and get out at Patterton into the moist foggy air.

Jennifer Nimmo
S3
Eastwood High School