The Trains Now Departed : Sixteen Excursions Into the Lost Delights of Britain's Railways (Hardcover)

from TeaTimeCoder

There was this steam train. It was slow, unreliable, uncomfortable and no one used it. Then the lizardpeople shut the train down purely to spite everyone. A vicar chained himself to the track in a valiant effort to save the train by blocking its passage (not sure how that works) but in the end th...

from RobertDay

Sixteen different stories about aspects of train travel and railway history in Britain that have now disappeared. The author takes a journalistic tone from the outset, but this is backed by extensive knowledge, which is worn lightly. Most of the stories go beyond the simple 'Beeching closed the b...

from RobertDay

Sixteen different stories about aspects of train travel and railway history in Britain that have now disappeared. The author takes a journalistic tone from the outset, but this is backed by extensive knowledge, which is worn lightly. Most of the stories go beyond the simple 'Beeching closed the b...