Ealing Broadway:
“The next train to arrive at platform 3 is …
… calling at Southall, Hayes & Harlington, Slough …“
And so begins the last leg of my journey to work. Except I don’t normally hear it - being aurally shut off from the rest of the world by my MP3 player. The twenty-minute journey to Slough is a musical daydream of window-seated, visual cross-fading between the sharply sunlit world passing by outside - and the reflections of the world inside in the train carriage. Sometimes the cross-over between outside and inside is involuntary; the girl occupying the seat in front moves about - and shuffles a few bits of paper about - or the darkness of train in a tunnel provides a short and temporary focus on the inside.
On what I thought would be last brightly lit morning of this year - I captured some of the moving images of this “focus cross-fading” phenomenon - and dubbed it with some music typical of my MP3 player train journeys:
Do a “right-click and save target as” here to download the video - it’s a Windows Media Player (WMV) file of approx 7 Megabytes in size (nearly 3 minutes running time). Save it to a folder of your choice - and when it’s downloaded (which should only be around 3 minutes on broadband/DSL/Cable) - double click on it - and turn up the volume.
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