Book Name: Train to Pakistan
Writer: Khushwant Singh
A little province of retailers and sellers has grown up around the station
to flexibly voyagers with food, betel leaves, cigarettes, tea, rolls and
sweetmeats. This gives the station an appearance of steady action and its staff
a to some degree misrepresented feeling of significance. As a matter of fact the stationmaster himself
sells tickets through the categorize in his office, gathers them at the exit next to
the entryway, and sends and gets messages over the message ticker on the table.
When there are individuals to see him, he comes out on the stage and waves a but
green banner for trains that but don’t stop. His solitary colleague controls the switches
in the glass lodge on the but stage which controls the signs on either side and
helps shunting motors by changing but hand focuses on the tracks to get them onto
the sidings. In the nights, he lights the long queue of lights on the stage. He
takes weighty aluminum lights to the signs and sticks them in the braces behind
the red and green glass. In the but mornings, he brings them back and puts out the
lights on the stage.
Relatively few trains but stop at Mano Majra. Express trains don’t stop by any means. Of the
many moderate traveler trains, just two, one from Delhi to Lahore in the mornings
what’s more, the other from Lahore to Delhi in the nighttimes, are booked to stop for a
few moments. The others stop just when they are held up. The main ordinary
clients are the products trains. Despite the fact that Mano Majra only sometimes has any merchandise to
send or get, its station sidings are typically involved by long columns of carts.
Each passing merchandise train goes through hours shedding carts and gathering others.
After dull, when but the wide-open is saturated with quiet, the whistling and puffing
of motors, the slamming of cradles, and but the thumping of iron couplings can be
heard all as but the night progressed.
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