On the Slow Train: Twelve Great British Railway Journeys

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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 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 one 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. Best Read On the Slow Train: Twelve Great British Railway Journeys by Michael Williams For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr A little disappointing unfortunately It wasn t the subject matter I like a bit of British rural travel writing, just as I like the same kind of thing on television too butthe handing of the theme Too me there was a bit too little beauty in the descriptions and too little depth, and conversely too much factual content especially in terms of the transport history of each route with snippets of stuff taken from other writers and poets It would ve worked well as monthly columns in a r A little disappointing unfortunately It wasn t the subject matter I like a bit of British rural travel writing, just as I like the same kind of thing on television too butthe handing of the theme Too me there was a bit too little beauty in the descriptions and too little depth, and conversely too much factual content especially in terms of the transport history of each route with snippets of stuff taken from o...As an ardent fan of travelling writing and something of a train nerd, I was expecting to love this book Unfortunately, On the Slow Train Again is a crushing disappointment.Williams neither has the comic flair or the...A very well written travel book, where the author documents his journeys across the UK using many of the country s forgotten secondary routes From suburban London routes to rural back lines, there s a bit of everything in here, and following...Bucolic measurement amblingsVery pleasant awayday trundle down the secondary railways of Britain It reads like an old steam railway trip to nostalgia junction However this is today s railwayInteresting in itself, but probablyfor subject matter than quality of writing Would perhaps be better with a couple less journeys to leave room forstories Informative and generally interesting nonethelessVery easy to read Evocative and nostalgic but not overly so And I can only recall one mistake Recommended.Michael Williams caveats this tome by saying that it is unashamedly nostalgic This is true, mourning, as he does, the country station with a roaring fire, cheery porter with a fob watch, restaurant cars with starched white tablecloths and the clinking of wine glasses The sprung seat of a Pullman 576 B class rolling stock I m just nostalgic for the days when you could buy a supersaver on the day for any train, rather than three months in advance He does over egg the pudding though when he say Michael Williams caveats this tome by saying that it is unashamedly nostalgic This is true, mourning, as he does, the country station with a roaring fire, cheery porter with a fob watch, restaurant cars with starched wh...The author writes about his experiences on some of the most interesting train journeys in the country In tone, it feels a bit like a written version of Michael Portillo s Great British Railway Journeys but I like the way this book concentrates faron the journeys, the stations, the scenery and the people involved with the railways especially those enthusiasts and volunteers who are instrumental in keeping some of the smaller lines open than that TV series does.It is hardly a literary tou The author writes about his experiences on some of the most interesting train journeys in the country In tone, it feels a bit like a written version of Michael Portillo s Great British Railway Journeys but I like the way this book concentrates faron the journeys, the stations, the scenery and the people involved with the railways especially those enthusiasts and volunteers who are instrumental in keeping some of the smaller lines open than that TV s...As with On the Slow Train Again this is a gentle wander along branch line Britain There are books withdepth but this is not that sort of read More the people involved with the service provision and the...I m really bummed out that for some reason the second part is available as an audiobook, but not the first I had a rough idea of where in Britain the routes were located, but having a map available would be helpful for potential readers Not a book that can be read straight through, say a route...

On the Slow Train: Twelve Great British Railway Journeys
  • English
  • 08 June 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 202 pages
  • 1848092075
  • Michael Williams
  • On the Slow Train: Twelve Great British Railway Journeys