Downstream

long gone, of course, but the
famous pier and its railway
line still stands. I get the first
train of the day, ducking my
head to get into a carriage
with shiny brown bucket
seats. It rattles off like a ghost
train ride, and there must be
plenty of ghosts around this
pier, first built out of wood in
1830 and then replaced with
iron in the 1870s. It has
survived fires, collisions from
barges and boats and two