Dark Interlude

Deep Valley Siding! Just a half forgotten platform of weather-worn sleepers brooding beside a single line railway track.The valley itself, hidden, deep, is far from human activity. Even in summer the sun scarcely warms it, and in winter the valley and its forlorn platform are veiled night and day in ground-mist and deep shadow.From the platform the single track begins its sinuous climb to the heights some two thousand feet above. Up and up it winds, spanning with the aid of lofty viaducts the deep chasms, hugging the cuttings blasted out of the sheer mountain, thrusting through rumbling, steam-clouded tunnels, running past giant forest trees, on and up until it forks to become a convenient loop where the slower freight trains await the passing of the fast expresses. After the loop there is but one long tunnel before the track comes to its busy platform at the Junction.