steam-dim

Updated: June 25, 2025

I am awake just enough to hear the hollow-echoing cry of 'Crewe' or 'York, and to blink up at the green-hooded lamp in the ceiling. May be, I raise a corner of the blind, and see through the steam-dim window the mysterious, empty station. A solitary porter shuffles along the platform.

Sir Max Beerbohm - Yet Again