🧱Buildings That Remember Burrington | The Train Station
The Train Station That Schedules Departures No One Can Board There is a train station that should not exist anymore. Not officially. Not structurally. Not in any municipal record that acknowledges the present century. And yet, it still operates. Or something within it does. The station sits at the edge of a commuter line that was rerouted decades ago, when newer tracks were laid to accommodate faster travel into the city. Passengers no longer arrive here. No trains are meant to stop. But they do. Sometimes. Not on any schedule you can look up. Only on the one the building remembers. If you walk the path beside the disused rail, you’ll see the station before you reach it. The roofline first. Then the platform canopy. Then the clock tower that has not moved since the day the tracks were abandoned. It is not ruined. That is the unsettling part. It is intact in the way something becomes when time stops pressing against it. Paint does not peel. Glass does not fully shatter. W...