The Slow Train: A Railway Miscellany - Couverture rigide

Ashley, Peter

 
9781788840927: The Slow Train: A Railway Miscellany
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1788840925 ISBN 13 : 9781788840927
Editeur : ACC Art Books, 2020

Synopsis

- A nostalgic three-book series celebrating a slower, old-fashioned way of life
- Vintage train memorabilia from across Britain
- Dedicated to a cultural staple in British industrial history: the train

As the world speeds up, as technology takes over, it is worth remembering how we used to live. This three-book series is a nostalgic hymn to an era when life was slower: a meandering ramble through the British countryside by bicycle, automobile and train.

Take an amble across the countryside with this book, which celebrates a time when our railway network was more than a permanently delayed omnishambles of overcrowded and overpriced trains. Country stations and lonely halts, milk churns and coal yards, enamelled signs and platform clocks - these are the fragments of a more leisured age, from a time when the local station was a well-loved institution at the heart of so many communities. Here are gas-lit rural stations, oil lamps on level crossing gates, enamelled signs, waiting room fires, timetables and luggage labels. Less a clattering, steamy ride into the past than a touchstone for joyous memories of such a vital and well-loved institution, The Slow Train harks back to a more
measured, considered era.

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À propos de l'auteur

Peter Ashley is an aficionado of British culture, responsible for the Unmitigated England trilogy, Preposterous Erections (his book on folly towers) and London Peculiars (one of the first books in ACC Art Books' bestselling London series). Peter is renowned for his passion for the oddities that make this country unique, as Jonathan Meades has said, "He is the gatekeeper to several generations' memories."

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

- A nostalgic three-book series celebrating a slower, old-fashioned way of life
- Vintage train memorabilia from across Britain
- Dedicated to a cultural staple in British industrial history: the train

As the world speeds up, as technology takes over, it is worth remembering how we used to live. This three-book series is a nostalgic hymn to an era when life was slower: a meandering ramble through the British countryside by bicycle, automobile and train.

Take an amble across the countryside with this book, which celebrates a time when our railway network was more than a permanently delayed omnishambles of overcrowded and overpriced trains. Country stations and lonely halts, milk churns and coal yards, enamelled signs and platform clocks - these are the fragments of a more leisured age, from a time when the local station was a well-loved institution at the heart of so many communities. Here are gas-lit rural stations, oil lamps on level crossing gates, enamelled signs, waiting room fires, timetables and luggage labels. Less a clattering, steamy ride into the past than a touchstone for joyous memories of such a vital and well-loved institution, The Slow Train harks back to a more
measured, considered era.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
ACC Art Books
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1788840925
ISBN 13 
9781788840927
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
96
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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