Farewell to Trains: A Lifetime's Journey Along Britain's Changing Railways
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Author: David St John Thomas
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 256
David St John Thomas is Britain's one-time bestselling railway author, who built a formidable publishing empire first based mainly on railways. In 'Farewell to Trains', he summarizes his lifetime's passion. Personal reminiscences and evocative descriptions of railway life are interspersed with extracts from over 65 years of the author's railway writings, and illustrated throughout with archive photography. In this poignant love letter, the author says farewell to the restaurant cars, the sleeping carriages, the non-stop expresses and the cheap excursion trains, the local stations bustling with the railway's peripheral trades and liveried staff, the semaphore and signal boxes, and of course the great steam engines.
Author: David St John Thomas
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 256
David St John Thomas is Britain's one-time bestselling railway author, who built a formidable publishing empire first based mainly on railways. In 'Farewell to Trains', he summarizes his lifetime's passion. Personal reminiscences and evocative descriptions of railway life are interspersed with extracts from over 65 years of the author's railway writings, and illustrated throughout with archive photography. In this poignant love letter, the author says farewell to the restaurant cars, the sleeping carriages, the non-stop expresses and the cheap excursion trains, the local stations bustling with the railway's peripheral trades and liveried staff, the semaphore and signal boxes, and of course the great steam engines.
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: David St John Thomas
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 256
David St John Thomas is Britain's one-time bestselling railway author, who built a formidable publishing empire first based mainly on railways. In 'Farewell to Trains', he summarizes his lifetime's passion. Personal reminiscences and evocative descriptions of railway life are interspersed with extracts from over 65 years of the author's railway writings, and illustrated throughout with archive photography. In this poignant love letter, the author says farewell to the restaurant cars, the sleeping carriages, the non-stop expresses and the cheap excursion trains, the local stations bustling with the railway's peripheral trades and liveried staff, the semaphore and signal boxes, and of course the great steam engines.
Author: David St John Thomas
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 256
David St John Thomas is Britain's one-time bestselling railway author, who built a formidable publishing empire first based mainly on railways. In 'Farewell to Trains', he summarizes his lifetime's passion. Personal reminiscences and evocative descriptions of railway life are interspersed with extracts from over 65 years of the author's railway writings, and illustrated throughout with archive photography. In this poignant love letter, the author says farewell to the restaurant cars, the sleeping carriages, the non-stop expresses and the cheap excursion trains, the local stations bustling with the railway's peripheral trades and liveried staff, the semaphore and signal boxes, and of course the great steam engines.
Farewell to Trains: A Lifetime's Journey Along Britain's Changing Railways