The railway garden is no different to those apogees of the Horticulturalists' art - the gardens at The Royal Hospital Flower Show, Chelsea.
Too little water and all your best endeavours are in vain.
At Crewe this particular problem has been overcome.
Such is the shiite state of the guttering that it pours endlessly over pillar, platform and passenger alike.
Lest Network Rail protest that the image above was taken during abnormal levels of rainfall (in August!) the Fact Compiler would like to point out the verdigris - attacking brick and dissolving 'gobbo' alike - a clear sign of long term neglect.
Grimsby and Back
3 years ago