“You may be happy to see children, you two.” said Angelina who had just woken up after the lights had come on, “But after there off to school it’s just going to be another old boring day of us shuttling backwards and forwards along the line as usual, with no paying passengers riding in us, and the engines on the mainline belittling us on how pointless our lives are on this line, claiming that it’s one that’s dying. All the while we are still facing an uncertain future for our home once the copper mine has winded down production for good, with the line mostly likely to be on BR’s chopping block of branch lines to be closed, and yet I don’t know where we’ll go when that happens, and if we’ll be separated or not.”

Here's a bit of a sneak preview and another illustration done for chapter two of book one of TFTTOH. Angelina here has just woken up after hearing Danwood and Sanworth say how they are looking forward to taking the few children they still have traveling with them to school, with her then after grumbling to them about how after that it was just going to be another boring day with no paying passengers traveling on their line, with the engines on the mainline making fun of them about how pointless their life is for them on a dying branch line, while worrying about what would happen to them after it's closure.

Tarmingham Overhead Railway and Characters: ©  PatOakGo