Box Hill Railway Station

Box Hill railway station may refer to:

  • Box Hill railway station, Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia
  • Box Hill Railway Station, Wellington, in Khandallah, Wellington, New Zealand
  • The former name of Box Hill & Westhumble railway station in Surrey, England

Famous quotes containing the words box, hill, railway and/or station:

    “Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.”
    —William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)

    “headland beyond stormy headland plunging like dolphins through the
    gray sea-smoke
    Into pale sea, look west at the hill of water: it is half the
    planet: this dome, this half-globe, this bulging
    Eyeball of water,”
    —Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)

    “Her personality had an architectonic quality; I think of her when I see some of the great London railway termini, especially St. Pancras, with its soot and turrets, and she overshadowed her own daughters, whom she did not understand—my mother, who liked things to be nice; my dotty aunt. But my mother had not the strength to put even some physical distance between them, let alone keep the old monster at emotional arm’s length.”
    —Angela Carter (1940–1992)

    “...I believe it is now the duty of the slaves of the South to rebuke their masters for their robbery, oppression and crime.... No station or character can destroy individual responsibility, in the matter of reproving sin.”
    —Angelina Grimké (1805–1879)