Cash writes: During a train journey, the straightness of the railway line reminds him of the linear movement of time… What happens at Adlestrop station? Time stops: "for that minute", an illogical unit of measurement, the poet enters an alternative dimension and has the knowledge of timelessness, a supernatural experience to which he gives a name, the strange name on the sign (Cash 70 ) From this passage it can clearly be said that this poem can be metaphorically taken to a place where some readers may have never thought that the poem was going in that direction. By understanding that this poem could be about the movement of time, one can see that it opens up a whole new aspect of what is happening within the poem. By observing the train in this form, scholars might be able to deduce that every stop along the route, not just this one, is a