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"We live in one of the most beautiful countries in the world – sit back, relax and enjoy the ever changing landscape of Britain from the Rails!" Pete Waterman Obe, Chairman of the Waterman Railway Trust "Look out of those train windows and see another Britain. This is a richly researched and fascinating book, with a chuckle and a raised eyebrow at every page." Alastair Sawday "Whether you're a first-time visitor or time-served commuter, Benedict le Vay's book will open your eyes to the sights and history of Britain's best train journeys. And his choice of the top ten British train routes is spot on!" Mark Smith, The Man In Seat 61 "A quite superb, indeed incomparable, combination of maps, railway trivia, engineering isights and breathtaking landscape features to look out for." Michael Gove, The Times 'This elegant guide is perfect for people who really want to know what they are seeing when they idly look out of a train window. The maps and illustrations add to the joy of reading a gorgeous guide.' Adam Trimingham, Brighton Argus Magazine "Britain from the Rails: A Window Gazer's Guide by Benedict le Vay, tells you what you should look out for from your carriage window on rail journeys from Aberdeen to Penzance and all points in between. This is a book that will gladden the hearts of all who love train travel." Frank Barrett, The Mail on Sunday 'Gloriously quirky labour-of-love' Wanderlust
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There's a magical romance about trains that no other form of transport can capture. Meeting under an iconic station clock at a grand terminus. Gathering speed through city, town and country, swooping across viaducts, rattling across huge junctions and whistling through tunnels. At long last you are in a small Sussex beachside halt, or a Welsh valley country station, beside a quiet Norfolk waterway, or winding through a remote forest high above a Scottish loch. Dreamily you think, 'Do those same twin ribbons of steel really lead all the way back to the greatest city in Europe? Can this really be the very same seat?' Britain from the Rails travels to a world far from the endless queues and prodding security of ugly airport terminals. It abandons the cars to their motorway jams and soaring petrol prices, and revels instead in the gems of Britain's historic railway system.
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the train passenger sees more,
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This review is from: Britain from the Rails: A Window Gazer's Guide (Bradt Travel Guides) (Hardcover)
This is a fun book, contemporary, insightful, really useful, and well-informed, of the view from the train window. It's not great literature but the writer knows his Britain, his trains and their strengths and weakness, travels for fun with an open mind, knows where to sit, and sees Britain in some of its finest places. I know his 'top ten' of train rides, and he's right, but many of the others he describes have hidden or forgotten treasures. The only things to spoil your pleasure in this book are, those who are bent on destroying what you came to see, and the operating rail companies when they fail to live up to their potential. And who knows? Perhaps this book will show some of them what treasures they have!
20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
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Beautifully produced travelpaedia,
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This review is from: Britain from the Rails: A Window Gazer's Guide (Bradt Travel Guides) (Hardcover)
I used to take a seven hour train journey twice each week through England's heartland, trundling slowly through landscape of which I knew little and changing trains three times in the process. If only I had had Ben Le Vay's book then! It is a perfect accompaniment to any train journey, and the ideal gift to those strange people who sit on trains staring out the window doing nothing, absorbed in their own imaginings. Here is the antidote to boring train journeys. Full of interesting bon mots, amusing cartoons, drawings, maps and photographs no one could fail to be delighted with this excellent publication. It is now permanently in my brief case, even for those short journeys on God's Wonderful Railway that take me over Brunel's amazing Maidenhead Bridge into the Metropolis, about which there is always something new to learn.
20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
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Train travel transformed,
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This review is from: Britain from the Rails: A Window Gazer's Guide (Bradt Travel Guides) (Hardcover)
Extensively researched and detailed, but not at the expense of entertainment. Don't be fooled by the jokey cartoons, this is genuinely interesting information presented in a palatable, not to say delicious, serving. Highly recommended for all travellers who need to refresh their sense of wonder.
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