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” LIFE, A TRAIN JOURNEY” – By Des Kelly On watching this meaningful, beautiful, and to top it off, Musical train journey, backed by the memorable voice of Susan Boyle, I found myself thinking of my very first train journey, from the little Suburb of Moratuwa, in my Lovely Island Home,Ceylon, all the way to Nuwara Eliya, the Scenic Capital of the World, as far as I was concerned, anyway. I remember it so well. I rode on the engine itself,  driven by my dear late Uncle Fred de Kretser, of the C.G.R.,& helping the ‘fireman’ to keep the log fire in the engine going, could well be the dream of ANY lad of around eight, and there I was. Just as the ‘train of life’ is, this wasn’t an express train, and it stopped at nearly every Station, on the way, so we could buy a few ‘masala or ...