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A cache placed to mark the fourth of the 2025 hiding themes:
Blast from the Past 📚📺 (25 Years of Geocaching) 🗓️
The Night Mail by W. H. Auden was written in 1936 to be included in a short documentary film about the nightly mail train which was operated by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) and travelled from London to Scotland. The film includes the poem read by W. H. Auden, it can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLkvPG-iYHM
The "Night Mail" train service ran from 1838 to 2004.
The Puzzle: An extract from:
NIGHT MAIL – W. H. Auden
This is the Night Mail crossing the border,
Bringing the cheque and the postal order,
Letters for the rich, letters for the poor,
The shop at the corner and the girl next door.
Pulling up Beattock, a steady clime:
The gradient's against her, but she's on time.
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Letters of thanks, letters from banks,
Letters of joy from the gril and the boy,
Receipted bills and invitations
To inspect new stock or visit relations,
And aplications for situations
And timid lovers' declarations
And gossip, gossip from all the nations,
News circumstantial, news financial,
Letters with holiday snaps to enlarge in,
Letters with faces scrawled in the margin,
Letters from uncles, cousins, and aunts,
Letters to Scotland from the South of France,
Letters of condolence to Highlands and Lowlands
Notes from overseas to Hebrides
Written on paper of every hue,
The pink, the violet, the white and the blew,
The chatty, the catty, the boring, adoring,
The cold and official and the hart’s outpouring,
Clever, stupid, short and long,
The typed and the printed and the spelt all wrong...
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N51° 45. (3rd) (4th + 4th) (2nd - 3rd)
W001° 10. (5th + 3rd) (1st + 4th) (5th - 1st)
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This cache is placed with the kind permission of Shotover Country Park.
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