Whilst on the subject of recollections and the power of music to revive them, I found this photo of a JR 112 series train at rest at Fukuchiyama Station. As alluded to in the last post, this was the train that took me through to my teaching job in Kaibara. They were phased out in 2012, a few years after our departure. A second photo shows the superficially remodelled 113 which plied the same route.

The final photo is as perfect a comparison as I can make. At Sasayama-guchi, the train from Sanda on the left sits as the one on the right prepares for the change of passengers for Fukuchiyama. I did this little two-step on many occasions.