Lise’s Branch Line
a railway fantasy
4 min readJun 27, 2021
The Tennyson Pennyweight chuffety-chuffs its way along the tufted branch line Mr Beeching crossed out on his clipboard more than half a century ago. Tearing up dandelions with its iron teeth like nobody’s business, its relentless coupling rods whipping the wrong kind of leaves into a flurry of ecstasy.
