On the slow train again
By: Michael Williams
Publisher: Magna
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Long Preston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780750536264
Subjects: Travel; Railroad travel; History; Large type books; Description and travel; Voyages en train; Histoire; Aspect social; Livres en gros caractères; Descriptions et voyages; Large print books
Description: "Michael Williams has spent the past year travelling along the fascinating rail byways of Britian for this new collection of journeys. Here is the 'train to the end of the world' running for more than four ... hours through lake, loch and mooorlanf from Inverness to Wick, the northermost 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 ... Dovey estuary to the far west of Wales. ..."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: On the slow train; title: 1. The 09.05 to St. Ives: the line they couldn't close; title: 2. The 15.03 from Carlisle to the roof of England; title: 3. The 10.53 from Ryde: the Tube train that went to the seaside; title: 4. The 10.30 from Wrexham Central: up the line to London's last terminus; title: 5. The 08.38 to Sellafield: a journey along the line that time forgot; title: 6. The 11.24 from Victoria: a day excursion to Nostalgia Central; title: 7. The 08.29 to Richmond: London's country branch line; title: 8. The 21.15 from Euston: the 'Deerstalker Express' to the remotest station in Britain; title: 9. The 14.05 from Shrewsbury: slow train into thye 'unpronounceable' heart of Wales; title: 10. The 08.41 to Casterbridge, via Tess of the d'Urbervilles; title: 11. The 08.04 from Norwich: 'secret lines' to Liverpool Street, via Britain's smallest main line station; title: 12. The 07.06 from Formby: the stations that came back from the dead.