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Belles and Whistles - Journeys Through Time on Britain's Trains (Paperback, Main)
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Belles and Whistles - Journeys Through Time on Britain's Trains (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R298
Discovery Miles 2 980
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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. In Belles and Whistles, Andrew Martin recreates these famous
train journeys by travelling aboard 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. As Martin
explains how we got from there to here, evocations of the Golden
Age contrast with the starker modern reality: from monogrammed
cutlery to stirring sticks, from silence on trains to tannoy
announcements, from compartments to airline seating. For those who
wonder whatever happened to porters, dining cars, mellow lighting,
timetables, luggage in advance, trunk murders, the answers are all
here. Martin's five journeys add up to an idiosyncratic history of
Britain's railways, combining humour, historical anecdote and
reportage from the present and romantic evocations of the past.
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