Black and white photo of a fine line tattoo of two simple abstract figures on the outer ankle, with flip flops on the foot and a railway track behind.

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Small line figures tattoo on an ankle

Fine line · Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

A bare foot in a strappy flip flop rests on a wooden surface beside a railway track. A small black linework tattoo of two stick-like figures joined by a curved line sits on the outer ankle. The lines are thin and even, and the greyscale photo sits against gravel, leaves and the track in soft focus.

Fine line Ankle Figure Line drawing Abstract

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

At Kell Halt the railway crossed the river border on an iron bridge with no gate, so the two stationmasters had to agree on the timetable by shouting across the water. Tamsin kept the eastern side and Oskar kept the western, and for eleven years they sent each other the same news by flag: the train is late, the train is early, the cows are on the line again.

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One winter the river rose over the footings and the telegraph wire snapped. Tamsin walked the track at dusk with a lantern and a hazel switch, bending it as she went so the wood would not crack in the cold. At the middle sleeper she found Oskar already there, holding the other end of his own switch. The water was too loud for talking, so they bound the two canes together with a strip of wet cord and laid the bundle across the gap, one end on each bank, and the signal flags went up on both sides.

The night train came through at four, on time for once. Nobody on board knew whose hands had kept the line safe, and the driver only saw two lanterns held low and steady on either side of the water.

In spring the cord rotted and they replaced it with copper wire, and the wire outlasted both of them. People still say that at dusk, if you stand on the sleeper and look down, the bent wood between the two banks looks like two figures leaning in to pass something across.