darkened

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of darken

adj

1. (not-comparable)Made dark or lightproof by the exclusion of light.
2. (not-comparable)Having an absence of light, such as at night-time.

   “Far less straightforward was what happened at about 0130 on Friday June 2 1944, as a long goods train was chuffing and clanking its unhurried way across the darkened landscape towards Soham, from Ely.”