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On The Slow Train Again
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Author : Michael Williams
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-04-07
On The Slow Train Again written by Michael Williams and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-07 with Transportation categories.
Michael Williams has spent the past year travelling along the fascinating rail byways of Britain for this new collection of journeys. Here is the 'train to the end of the world' running for more than four splendid hours through lake, loch and moorland from Inverness to Wick, the most northerly 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 lovely Dovey estuary to the far west of Wales. He takes the stopping train across the Pennines on a line with so few services that its glorious scenery is a secret known only to the regulars. Here, too, is the Bittern Line in Norfolk and the Tarka Line in North Devon as well as the little branch line to the fishing port of Looe in Cornwall, rescued from closure in the 1960s and now celebrating its 150th anniversary taking families on holiday to the seaside. From the most luxurious and historic - aboard the Orient Express - to the most futuristic - on the driverless trains of London's Docklands Light Railway - here is a unique travel companion celebrating the treasures of our railway heritage from one of Britain's most knowledgeable railway writers.
The Trains Now Departed
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Author : Michael Williams
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2015-05-07
The Trains Now Departed written by Michael Williams and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-07 with Transportation categories.
SOMETIMES you come across a lofty railway viaduct, marooned in the middle of a remote country landscape. Or a crumbling platform from some once-bustling junction buried under the buddleia. If you are lucky you might be able to follow some rusting tracks, or explore an old tunnel leading to...well, who knows where? Listen hard. Is that the wind in the undergrowth? Or the spectre of a train from a golden era of the past panting up the embankment? These are the ghosts of The Trains Now Departed. They are the railway lines, and services that ran on them that have disappeared and gone forever. Our lost legacy includes lines prematurely axed, often with a gripping and colourful tale of their own, as well as marvels of locomotive engineering sent to the scrapyard, and grand termini felled by the wrecker's ball. Then there are the lost delights of train travel, such as haute cuisine in the dining car, the grand expresses with their evocative names, and continental boat trains to romantic far-off places. The Trains Now Departed tells the stories of some of the most fascinating lost trains of Britain, vividly evoking the glories of a bygone age. In his personal odyssey around Britain Michael Williams tells the tales of the pioneers who built the tracks, the yarns of the men and women who operated them and the colourful trains that ran on them. It is a journey into the soul of our railways, summoning up a magic which, although mired in time, is fortunately not lost for ever. THIS EDITION REVISED AND UPDATED TO INCLUDE MAPS.
Slow Train To Guantanamo
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Author : Peter Millar
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-07-01
Slow Train To Guantanamo written by Peter Millar and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-01 with Fiction categories.
Starting in the ramshackle but romantic capital of Havana, Peter Millar travels with ordinary Cubans, sharing anecdotes, life stories and political opinions to the far end of the island, the Guantanamo naval base and detention camp.
Slow Train To Switzerland
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Author : Diccon Bewes
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-11-07
Slow Train To Switzerland written by Diccon Bewes and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-07 with Travel categories.
In June 1863 an English lady set off by train on the trip of a lifetime: Thomas Cook's first Conducted Tour of Switzerland. A century and a half later, travel writer Diccon Bewes, author of the bestselling Swiss Watching, decided to go where she went and see what she saw. Guided by her diary, he followed the same route to discover how much had changed and how much hadn't. She went in search of adventure, he went in search of her, and found far more than he expected. Slow Train to Switzerland is the captivating account of two trips through the Alps: hers glimpsing the future of travel, his revisiting its past. Together they make a journey to remember. This is a tale of trains and tourists, of the British and the Swiss, of a Victorian traveller and a modern-day Englishman abroad. It is the story of a tour that changed both Switzerland and the world of travel forever.
On The Slow Train
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Author : Michael Williams
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011
On The Slow Train written by Michael Williams and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Great Britain categories.
Never was the sadness of the end of an affair so poignantly expressed than in Flanders and Swann's elegy The Slow Train. This beautifully-packaged book will take the reader on the slow train to another era when travel meant more than hurrying from one place to the next, the journey meaning nothing but time lost in crowded carriages, condemned by broken timetables. On the Slow Train will reconnect with that long-missed need to lift our heads from the daily grind and reflect that there are still places in Britain where we can stop and stare. It will tap into many things: a love of railways, a love of history, and a love of nostalgia. This book will be a paean to another age before milk churns, porters, and cats on seats were replaced by security announcements and Burger King. These twelve spectacular journeys will help free us from what Baudelaire denounced as "the horrible burden of time."
Slow Trains Around Spain
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Author : Tom Chesshyre
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2022-04-14
Slow Trains Around Spain written by Tom Chesshyre and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-14 with Transportation categories.
Between soaring mountains, across arid deserts, parched plains and valleys of fruit orchards and olive groves, down glittering coastlines and along viaducts towering above plunging ravines... there is no better way to see Spain than by train. Rail enthusiast Tom Chesshyre, author of Slow Trains to Venice, Ticket to Ride and Tales from the Fast Trains, hits the tracks once again to take in the country through carriage windows on a series of clattering rides beyond the popular image of “holiday Spain” (although he stops by in Benidorm and Torremolinos too). From hidden spots in Catalonia, through the plains of Aragon and across the north coast to Santiago de Compostela, Chesshyre continues his journey via Madrid, the wilds of Extremadura, dusty mining towns, the cathedrals and palaces of Valencia and Granada, and finally to Seville, Andalusia’s beguiling (and hot) capital. Encounters? Plenty. Mishaps? A lot. Happy Spanish days? All the way.
Slow Train
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Author : Dee Shemma
language : en
Publisher: BalboaPress
Release Date : 2012-05-09
Slow Train written by Dee Shemma and has been published by BalboaPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-09 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Tears are the perfect place for you to start healing. Dealing with the dreaded diagnosis and planning your prognosis. Ovarian cancer is not silent, there are signs and symptoms. Dont own cancer by saying I have cancer or My cancer. Will you go the conventional or the alternative route? Theres a difference between a good doctor and a great doctor. The choices, challenges and changes of chemotherapy treatment. Getting used to bald being beautiful and wearing a wig. Life is like a movie and, temporarily, you may not be in it. If you dont have a wellness programme, you should create one. Do you feel you fit the cancer profile? On a cancer journey, you die to your old life and are born again. Your recovery is individual, it wont fit a schedule. There are things family and friends should know. Try to keep in touch with Champs, no matter what. Youll be showered with gifts from the Universe and friends. Youll be grateful for chemo pals, sisters and carers. It hurts when someone doesnt know how to be there for you. The pain of losing a friend to cancer. Strategies for dealing with depression. Youll be wrapped in light, grace and good energy. In time, you may feel grateful for the cancer journey. Is cancer a gift?
Fast Train Slow Train Thomas Friends
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Author : Rev. W. Awdry
language : en
Publisher: Golden Books
Release Date : 2011-05-11
Fast Train Slow Train Thomas Friends written by Rev. W. Awdry and has been published by Golden Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-11 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
It's the classic tale of the Tortoise and the Hare...set on the rails of Sodor!
Slow Train To Arcturus
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Author : Eric Flint
language : en
Publisher: Baen Publishing Enterprises
Release Date : 2008-10-01
Slow Train To Arcturus written by Eric Flint and has been published by Baen Publishing Enterprises this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-01 with Fiction categories.
Make Tracks to the Stars! 0 Ye civilized of Earth: send forth your outcasts, your primitive throwbacks, your religious fundamentalists, your sexual separatists¾and heck, you can even toss in your totalitarian crackpots in the bargain. Pack them all in sealed habitats, rocket them into space, and pronounce good riddance to those lunatics, oddballs and losers! But if you happen to be an alien explorer stranded on that ship and looking to find a way home Well then, your one chance lies in seeking out the true iconoclasts in a sea of nutcase societies¾for verily, it is only the absolutely original and terminally weird who shall inherit the stars! At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). "[T]he sharpest moments in this giddy entertainment are those where [Flint and Freer] blithely skewer human mores." ¾Publisher's Weekly on Rats, Bats & Vats
The Slow Train To Milan
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Author : Lisa St Aubin de Téran
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 1984
The Slow Train To Milan written by Lisa St Aubin de Téran and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with categories.