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May 2014
Nothing's changed since '56
When the station went and shut
Ninety years of passengers
Closed without a but.....

I know it isn't empty
though no train stops there no more
I can hear the spirits rustle
As they pass on through the open door

They've been waiting on the platform
Since nineteen fifty six
Some don't even know it's closed
They think their watch is playing tricks

They travelled on it living
They travelled on it dead
No train comes on through Hadlow Road
It takes another route instead

The ticketmaster checks the bags
of the ghostly, spirit hoard
Waiting for a long gone train
One that none of them will board

You can hear the spirits sometimes
Waiting on the platform for the train
One that they all used to ride
But, never will again

Hadlow Road Station is closed
And it won't be used again
But, the spirits there are waiting
For a long gone ghostly train
Roger Turner - Poet
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Roger Turner - Poet
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