mardi, décembre 30, 2003
NE 11 - Woodleigh
The blue train trundles past, swift, ever moving, constant motion.
The ticker and announcements all fall silent for an uncommonly long period of time, an overdue stop.
Then the tunnel walls change ever so imperceptibly, the ornaments, the colour, all hint of an impending stop.
and a dark shape appears, dimly lit, hollow, silent, a clear expanse of a room. with empty glass doors on the facing side. darkness and emptiness and silence beyond.
the room and the tunnel are both silent and lifeless.
it feels odd. why. because the place isn't abandoned, isn't derelict, isn't condemned.
rather, it is dim, yet fresh, dusty, yet new.
it's odd, really. a brand new place, fully furbished. as new as a display set placed in a window. all parts working, yet dust gathering.
a brand new ghost town. gleaming in the few lights. what are the lights for, maybe so that you won't imagine ghosts.
NEL has been open long, and these two stops are still silent. up and running. in the distant future when these stations might be open, it will never live as the other stations will. we have all been so used to trundling past them insignificant mammoths, unused to their presence and use.
the ghost towns of singapore. the underground caverns which do not exist. the brand new caves.
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NE 11 - Woodleigh
The blue train trundles past, swift, ever moving, constant motion.
The ticker and announcements all fall silent for an uncommonly long period of time, an overdue stop.
Then the tunnel walls change ever so imperceptibly, the ornaments, the colour, all hint of an impending stop.
and a dark shape appears, dimly lit, hollow, silent, a clear expanse of a room. with empty glass doors on the facing side. darkness and emptiness and silence beyond.
the room and the tunnel are both silent and lifeless.
it feels odd. why. because the place isn't abandoned, isn't derelict, isn't condemned.
rather, it is dim, yet fresh, dusty, yet new.
it's odd, really. a brand new place, fully furbished. as new as a display set placed in a window. all parts working, yet dust gathering.
a brand new ghost town. gleaming in the few lights. what are the lights for, maybe so that you won't imagine ghosts.
NEL has been open long, and these two stops are still silent. up and running. in the distant future when these stations might be open, it will never live as the other stations will. we have all been so used to trundling past them insignificant mammoths, unused to their presence and use.
the ghost towns of singapore. the underground caverns which do not exist. the brand new caves.
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