Families And Friendships (2013)
“She hadn’t imagined it would be so easy to find out as much as she had. Her birth mother was a lady called Fiona Norwood, married to the rector of St Peter’s church in the market town of Aberthwaite, in the north Yorkshire dales.
She looked up Aberthwaite in the map book her parents owned. It was not far from Richmond, which seemed to be the largest town in that area. She didn’t know if there was a railway station there. Most probably there wouldn’t be. She remembered that a few years ago, in 1...963, there had been something called the Beeching Report – she had heard her parents talking about it – and a lot of the smaller branch lines had been axed, and the railway stations closed, to make way for improved road travel, or so they had said.
Whitesands Bay still had their railway station. She and her mother sometimes caught the train there to Newcastle, some twelve miles away. There might be a train from there to Richmond, or maybe it would involve another change at Durham. These were places she had heard of but never visited.MoreLess
She looked up Aberthwaite in the map book her parents owned. It was not far from Richmond, which seemed to be the largest town in that area. She didn’t know if there was a railway station there. Most probably there wouldn’t be. She remembered that a few years ago, in 1...963, there had been something called the Beeching Report – she had heard her parents talking about it – and a lot of the smaller branch lines had been axed, and the railway stations closed, to make way for improved road travel, or so they had said.
Whitesands Bay still had their railway station. She and her mother sometimes caught the train there to Newcastle, some twelve miles away. There might be a train from there to Richmond, or maybe it would involve another change at Durham. These were places she had heard of but never visited.MoreLess
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