The meadow may be green and pleasant, but the diversity of plant and animal life in the countryside is still in steep decline. It has retreated to reservoirs large and small, in chance farmland, in land held by the armed forces, in odd corners and field boundaries, and in thousands of miles of railways, either in use or derelict, where the latter have not been ploughed out. You can see one such reservoir for the British flora/fauna crossing this photograph. As I walked on after taking this photograph, a hawk left its perch on the parapet of the viaduct to soar through an arch.
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Great Central Railway Centenary 1899 - 1999