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The Next Station Stop (Paperback, UK ed.)
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Discovery Miles 2 680
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The Next Station Stop (Paperback, UK ed.)
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List price R331
Loot Price R268
Discovery Miles 2 680
You Save R63 (19%)
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Join Peter Caton on his 10,000 mile tour of Britain, discovering
what it's like to travel on our modern railways and contemplating
train journeys made over the last fifty years. Inspired by finding
a childhood notebook, Peter revisits the locations of family
holidays, looking at how the journeys and places have changed, and
wondering why his parents chose such unlikely destinations. His
travels take him to some of the most beautiful and remote parts of
the country and on trains so eccentric that sometimes he wonders if
Thomas the Tank Engine is round the corner. Sampling a selection of
Inter City routes, he questions whether the pursuit of speed and
efficiency has taken away some of the enjoyment of travelling by
train, but on sleepers to Cornwall and Scotland finds the romance
of rail travel is still alive. He ends with a journey to Italy,
with a diversion up a snowy mountain, comparing European train
travel with British railways. We read of Peter's frustrations with
missed connections, inflexible computers, annoying passengers and
of an encounter with a machine gun-carrying policeman. He writes of
his experiences with 'health and safety' and ridiculous
announcements, and how these combine to give the book its title.
Illustrated with 60 colour photographs covering the steam, diesel
and electric eras of the last 50 years, The Next Station Stop will
appeal to anyone who travels on Britain's trains.
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