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Railway stations have always been places of arrival and departure, anticipation and longing. As this 1941 image suggests, farewells took on an extra poignancy during wartime – who knows whether the people in this photograph ever saw each other again.
Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand
Reference: F-28405-1/2
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