It was Christmas Eve. The small local train was almost empty. It was snowing very hard outside. Suddenly the train stopped and everyone wondered what was wrong.
Then the train conductor walked through the train. "I am very sorry," he said to everyone. "The snow is too bad. We can't go forward and we can't go back. We have to stay here until the snow stops. And then someone will come and move the snow off the train tracks. "
"How long will we be here?" asked Melanie. "We have to get to Leeds by 8: 30 pm to catch our train to Manchester."
"I don't know," said the conductor. "But it is 7: 30 pm now. I'm sorry. I don't think we will get to Leeds in time. "
Melanie wanted to cry. When she married Craig in July, they moved to a small village in the Yorkshire Dales. She loved Craig very much, but life in the village was very quiet. She had not made any friends and she missed her family. She had not seen them since the wedding. She wanted to be with her family at Christmas.
Craig put his arms around Melanie. "It will be OK," he said. "You will see your family tomorrow." The conductor was talking to a family with two children at the back of the railway carriage. The children were crying loudly. "But we have to be at Grandma and Grandad's! We wrote letters to Santa. We told him we would be in Leeds on Christmas night! He won't know where to find us. We won't get any presents!"
Everyone was very unhappy. Everyone was talking loudly. They were shouting at the train conductor.
Then an old man stood up and said, "Everyone! Please calm down. I used to work on this railway line and know this kind of weather very well. I think we will be here until tomorrow morning, or maybe longer. So we must make our own Christmas Eve party. I have a bottle of whisky, a Christmas present for my brother. But I think I will share it with you. "
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"I have Christmas pies and a bottle of my homemade orange drink." said the mother of the children.
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The morning came with a lovely surprise to the children.
