The Slow Train - A Railway Miscellany
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| Verlag | ACC Art Books |
| Auflage | 2020 |
| Format | 19 cm |
| Gewicht | 294 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Reihe | Travel Miscellany |
| EAN | 9781788840927 |
| Bestell-Nr | 78884092UA |
Take an amble across the countryside with this book, which celebrates a time when our railways were renowned for quality.
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, Th e Slow Train harks back to a more measured, considered era.
