slow train coming

Out on the bike first thing this morning and enjoying the tracks which had finally dried out after all the recent rains.

But around an hour in, I got a puncture, just as I came into what was left of this old disused railway station.

I proceeded to change the inner tube only to find that the old style wide valve on the tube would not fit through the hole on the wheel rim.

I should have been annoyed and frustrated at the stupidity of the situation.But I was actually pretty calm about it all and in a way was just enjoying the isolation and quiet on what must at one time have been a bustling little station.

Ghostly in a way, and I half expected to see a slow train coming around the bend as I sat there wondering what to do.

The train didn't appear but a lone runner did and she told me the shortest route to get back to the road.

Problem solved and I called Terry who came to my rescue and drove me and the bike home.