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The Slow Train - A Railway Miscellany (Hardcover)
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The Slow Train - A Railway Miscellany (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R300
Discovery Miles 3 000
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As the world speeds up, as technology takes over, it is worth
remembering how we used to live. This three-book series is a
nostalgic hymn to an era when life was slower: a meandering ramble
through the British countryside by bicycle, automobile and train.
Take an amble across the countryside with this book, which
celebrates a time when our railway network was more than a
permanently delayed omnishambles of overcrowded and overpriced
trains. Country stations and lonely halts, milk churns and coal
yards, enamelled signs and platform clocks - these are the
fragments of a more leisured age, from a time when the local
station was a well-loved institution at the heart of so many
communities. Here are gas-lit rural stations, oil lamps on level
crossing gates, enamelled signs, waiting room fires, timetables and
luggage labels. Less a clattering, steamy ride into the past than a
touchstone for joyous memories of such a vital and well-loved
institution, The Slow Train harks back to a more measured,
considered era.
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