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This is land which once belonged to Wolverhampton's low-level
railway, a network of tracks which were run by Great Western. The low-level
network linked Wolverhampton with Birmingham's Moor Street and Snowhill
stations, and London's Paddington. Here, the tracks are gone but if you explore
the land with a drone a shadow of the line of the railway is just perceivable
as a darker shade of grey, scratched into the ground.
New paths are now trodden through the grasses which have split open the concrete beneath. These other periphery-dwellers are likely foxes, or people equally displaced. The land shifts downwards slightly. As the land inclines, the underbrush becomes engulfed in a flooded basin.
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~ Shadow Line ~