Information and Ideas practice question

When the branch line closed in 1966, the village lost its station and gained, within a decade, its silence: no trains, no shunting at six, no coal smuts on the washing. The people who remember the trains miss them; their children, who grew up with the silence, would fight to keep it. Neither is wrong. The line's closure was a loss to one generation and an inheritance to the next, and the village is the sum of both.