We had travelled another three or four hundred yards only, when we saw smoke rising in the distance beyond the tunnel. We surmised that this was the train approaching and slid with our cycles half-way down the embankment. We lit cigarettes and waited, half expecting that this was yet another false alarm, but the train it was, and travelling very quickly. As it went by it was only a few feet above us and it looked enormous, seeming to overhang the banking.