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Spring Hill Station (song)

Written and sung by Jim Low.
Live at the Time Cafe with Ian Jenkins and Lyall Brown
Sign marking the site of the former station building
Spring Hill Station in ’88
I do believe I’ve come too late
The trains no longer stop today
The station’s sadly in decay.

The homesick traveller, with welcome smile
Greets his loved ones, not seen awhile
The journey’s end, familiar sight
The station fires warm the night.

In days of old this must have been
A place of bustle and gushing steam
As engines hauled their welcome loads
Along our nation’s iron roads.

But Spring Hill Station is coming down
The railway’s passed another town
I photograph what I can see
For soon it’s all just memory.

Spring Hill Station in ’88
I do believe I’ve come too late
I photograph what I can see
For now it’s all just memory.

© Jim Low