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A large, rusted steam locomotive parked on wet tracks in a gloomy industrial railyard under an overcast sky.

Piove su Purfleet-on-Thames. Non è una pioggia che lava. È una pioggia che spalma, che riduce il mondo a un’unica superficie scura e lucida. Il fango nero dei binari diventa specchio. La ruggine si scioglie in vene sottili che corrono lungo le rotaie come sangue vecchio. L’aria è densa, pesante di umidità e di odori che non dovrebbero mescolarsi: nafta, metallo caldo, terra bagnata e il salmastro del Tamigi che sale dalla riva come un respiro di cosa annegata. La stazione non esiste sulle mappe. Un fascio di binari dimenticati, lampioni spenti da decenni, un edificio di mattoni scuri che sembra aver rinunciato al proprio nome. Al centro di questo silenzio industriale si erge lei. Krasny Gigant. Trentaquattro metri di acciaio e orgoglio ferito. Configurazione 4-14-4: due assi anteriori, sette motrici centrali enormi, due posteriori. Una macchina concepita per le steppe infinite e le sagome di carico russe, non per le curve strette e i tunnel bassi dell’Inghilterra. Arrivò via mare a Tilbury come ambasciatore sovietico. Doveva raggiungere King’s Cross in un viaggio dimostrativo. Invece allargò le rotaie, spezzò i deviatoi e sfiorò il disastro in una galleria storica, dove la cabina monumentale rasentò le pareti di mattone come una bestia troppo grande per la gabbia. Troppo imbarazzante da rispedire indietro, venne “donata” e poi sepolta a pezzi in un deposito sotterraneo vicino a Camden. Gli appassionati di archeologia industriale sognano ancora di ritrovare quei sette assi Voir plus

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