On the Slow Train Again - Couverture souple

Williams, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 009955285X ISBN 13 : 9780099552857

Editeur : Arrow, 2012

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

'One man's joyous account of his two-year, 30,000 mile quest to find Britain's most enchanting rail journeys' Daily Mail

In this companion volume to On the Slow Train, Michael Williams again takes us to another era of rail travel.

Here is the 'train to the end of the world' running for more than four splendid hours through lake, loch and moorland from Inverness to Wick. He discovers a perfect country branch line in London's commuterland, and travels on one of the slowest services in the land along the shores of the Dovey estuary to the west of Wales. He takes the stopping train across the Pennines on a line with so few services that its glorious scenery is a secret known only to the regulars. Here too is the little branch line to the fishing port of Looe in Cornwall, rescued from closure in the 1960s and now celebrating its 150th anniversary taking families on holiday to the seaside.

From the most luxurious and historic - aboard the Orient Express - to the most futuristic - on the driverless trains of London's Docklands Light Railway - here is a unique travel companion celebrating the treasures of our railway heritage from one of Britain's most knowledgeable railway writers.

'A delicious read, an evocative tour of our heritage, and a past that, in some places at least, still remains in the present' Evening Standard

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Michael Williams has spent the past year travelling along the fascinating rail byways of Britain for this new collection of journeys. Here is the 'train to the end of the world' running for more than four splendid hours through lake, loch and moorland from Inverness to Wick, the most northerly town in Britain. He discovers a perfect country branch line in London's commuterland, and travels on one of the slowest services in the land along the shores of the lovely Dovey estuary to the far west of Wales. He takes the stopping train across the Pennines on a line with so few services that its glorious scenery is a secret known only to the regulars. Here, too, is the Bittern Line in Norfolk and the Tarka Line in North Devon as well as the little branch line to the fishing port of Looe in Cornwall, rescued from closure in the 1960s and now celebrating its 150th anniversary taking families on holiday to the seaside. From the most luxurious and historic - aboard the Orient Express - to the most futuristic - on the driverless trains of London's Docklands Light Railway - here is a unique travel companion celebrating the treasures of our railway heritage from one of Britain's most knowledgeable railway writers.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Arrow
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 009955285X
• ISBN 13: 9780099552857
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224