Last Glimpse of Yuanlin Old Station
photo and text/Jingsiou Vanguard Team 2014.11.3
On the morning of Monday on November 3, 2014, Teacher Wen-yao said, “Yuanlin Old Station will be demolished soon”. I immediately the requested the parents of Chian-ya, Ya-ling, and Ji-rong to terminate the touring in the old station with their children in the noon break.
The empty public telephone booth makes people feel the sadness “only new people laugh, but no old ones cry”. Memorizing my story with Yuanlin Train Station, it was the New Year’s Day of 1997, after graduating from university, I came from the north to Xihu Township 300km away from my home to act as a substitute teacher. During holiday, I went to my home in Taipei from Yuanlin by train. Once I took the wrong train, and in order to catch the train, I tumbled on the platform, damaging my classes and cracking an incisor, I was really regretful for my wrong action of train jumping, but I became attached to Yuanlin Train Station!