It is such an evocative smell. One came through our station the main line the other day and sent me right back to childhood.

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oh that old sulphurous smell from soot throated funnels eh John.And indeed how mums to wipe little faces with licks on the hanky-blimey! that takes me back.enjoyed the poem.thank you.

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There's not much which evokes fond memories of past childhood better than railways.
What will evoke such memories of today's kids I wonder - plane travel? i-pods? alco-pops? Don't seem to have the same pull, do they?

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I don't know why this particular memory popped into my head, but it was insistent, and I couldn't get it out until I wrote these few lines last night ... sorry it's none too polished!

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