Belles and whistles
Subtitle: journeys through time on Britain's trains
By: Andrew Martin
Edition: Large print edition.
Publisher: WF Howes Ltd
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Rearsby, Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781510023833
Subjects: Locomotives; Railroad travel; History; Voyages en train; Histoire
Description: In the heroic days of rail travel, you could dine on kippers and champagne aboard the Brighton Belle; smoke a post-prandial cigar as the Golden Arrow closed in on Paris, or be shaved by the Flying Scotsman's on-board barber. Everyone from schoolboys to socialites knew of these glamorous 'named trains' and aspired to ride aboard them. Andrew Martin recreates five of these famous train journeys by travelling abroad their nearest modern day equivalents. Sometimes their names have survived, even if only as a footnote on a timetable leaflet, but what has usually - if not always - disappeared is the extravagance and luxury.
Notes: Standard print edition originally published: London: Profile Books, 2014.
Table of contents: title: The Golden Arrow; title: The Brighton Belle; title: The Cornish Riviera Express; title: The Flying Scotsman; title: The Caledonian Sleeper.