When their daughter was growing up, her friends loved visiting her in her railway carriage.
Like Anna Karenina with her railway-themed dreams, those cows are giving him a strange feeling of foreboding.
Here, Dame Diana travels in the footsteps of her railway engineer father, who was, naturally, "a regular guest at the Maharaja's hunting lodge".
She finds herself the surprising heroine of the hour when a terrorist bomb explodes in her railway carriage and she invites the three survivors - a little girl, a general, and a young German man - back to her home to recuperate.
Others copied him - including a music-hall star called Marie Loftus, who invited her showbiz friends to see the ingenious home she'd had made, with her railway carriages decked out with wooden cladding to make it look like a conventional bungalow.
Somewhere in London, welfare worker Jackie (Nadine Marshall) lives with her railway repairman husband Mark (Idris Elba) and 11-year-old son Jerome (Kai Francis Lewis), after whose birth she was told she'd never conceive again.
She told the Guardian that she and her husband, railway worker Steve Oram, had voted tactically at the 2010 general election for the Lib Dems to keep the Tories out.
"Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles - and functional?" But it wasn't for long, as Zaha Hadid (her funicular railway station at Innsbruck, above), Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas and others were soon to prove.
Ichihashi had reportedly spotted her in a bar and later approached her at a railway station near her home, begging her to teach him English.
When her successor as railways minister proposed mild fare increases, Banerjee forced him out.
