Wonju Railroad Station And The Traces Of The Past

What kinds of feelings do you have about the railroad station ?

After finishing looking around the San Museum, I went to the railroad station to go back to my home.
It was fine weather.

The railroad stations always make me recall my childhood when my family left our hometown for better living conditions. It was my mom’s determination to move into Seoul from tiny small country side.
Mom thought there was no hope for educate and feed us.

Of course it was not easy living in Seoul. But my uncle, mom’s elder brother, helped us for settlement in this unfamiliar and cold hearted cosmopolitan city.

I still remember the moment when we took up the train. Our relatives and close acquaintances said good bye for us with tears. Looking that, I realized the separation was a sorrow.

So whenever I am looking at the railroad station, the feeling of separation in my childhood comes out.

Strangely enough, the railroad station of Wonju city looked like the station of my hometown.

It seemed that the surrounded stores and buildings have not been changed for the decades.

I was looking around the station. There was a water supply tower for the steam locomotives.
The steam locomotives had been disappeared for a longtime ago, they preserved the water supply tower as a kinds of the local relics. I was so glad to see that water supply tower.

There was a wagon cart on the railroad. It looked like being abandoned.
Loneliness was my feeling at seeing that train wagon and the weeds around the railroads.

Sitting at the station, I was in reminiscence of my childhood.

It was so nice to have such a melancholy time sometimes.