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An unashamed tug at the heartstrings for a lost era, a time before Dr Beeching chopped the heart out of the British countryside. Renowned railway writer Michael Williams takes us on 12 of the most beautiful and historic railway journeys in Britain. Revised and updated for paperback.
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This beautifully-packaged book will take the reader on the slow train to another era when travel meant more than hurrying from one place to the next, the journey meaning nothing but time lost in crowded carriages, condemned by broken timetables. On the Slow Train will reconnect with that long-missed need to lift our heads from the daily grind and reflect that there are still places in Britain where we can stop and stare. It will tap into many things: a love of railways, a love of history, a love of nostalgia.
This book will be a paean to another age before milk churns, porters and cats on seats were replaced by security announcements and Burger King. These 12 spectacular journeys will help free us from what Baudelaire denounced as 'the horrible burden of time.'
Updated for the paperback.
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79 of 79 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Michael Williams takes us on twelve journeys on selected rail routes. These are not preserved railways run by enthusiasts, but parts of the ordinary railway network that were spared by Beeching when he swung his axe at the British rail map back in the 1960s. The twelve routes are all charming, exotic or unusual in some way. One or two of them, such as the Settle-Carlisle railway, are well known and have been written about many times before, but we also experience other, far more obscure, rail trips. Mr Williams is an engaging travel companion, though one or two of the chapters might seem slightly dull to readers who are not railway enthusiasts. However, I defy anybody not to get excited at the romance of the nightly sleeper from Euston to the Scottish Highlands - I'll be buying a ticket sometime soon. This book is well worth reading and will tempt you to holiday in the UK this year - see you at the Berney Arms! If you enjoy this book you night also like "Eleven Minutes Late" by Matthew Engel and "Britain From The Rails" by Benedict le Vay.
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a wonderful book which is beautifully written and utterly captivating. The journeys (and stories told) are carefully selected to interest railway enthusiasts and the general traveller. As others have suggested, if you enjoy this, then Britain from the Rails and Eleven Minutes Late are also highly recommended. This was my favourite of the three, however. I do hope that Michael Williams writes a sequel.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
What a charming book! Written with a light humorous touch, no need to be a railway fan to enjoy it. It really brings to life the chosen rail journeys... I'm off to buy a ticket right now!
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A real peoples railway book of life on the slow train
What a wonderful read of railways and people that make the railways work. The slow train was far too short and now I'm on slow train two and looking forward to slow train three a... Read more
Published 7 months ago by I. D. Dinmore
Lightweight reading
An interesting enough book for casual reading, but serious rail enthusiasts will find it very lightweight. Read more
Published 8 months ago by R. A. Whitworth
Excellent!
The book is just marvellous to read! It is well-written, i.e. factual but not soulless, well-printed (hardcover version) without these days` all too frequent spelling deficiencies,... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Volker Knopp
On the Slow Train
Having travelled myself on some of the routes described in the book, it acted as an 'aide memoire' to some stunning journieys. It is written in an easy going, informative style. Read more
Published 11 months ago by D. M. Ely-brown
Fascinating and evocative
There has been quite an upsurge of books on "great railway journeys" recently, as can be seen from other reviews, but this book easily holds its own with any of them. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Mr. Ian C. Kemp
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A delightful read; full of interesting stories and incidents nicely related. Honest too, the Heart of Wales railway is noisy and does have high windows... Read more
Published 12 months ago by D. Fielding
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This is a superb book. you don't have to be a full-on railway enthuisiast to appreciate the journeys undertaken by the author,Michael Williams. Read more
Published 13 months ago by jonesy at 42
A fantastic read
Sit back and relax as you read this most entertaining book written in a most enlightening and vivid style so elequant you are allmost there where the writer is. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Clive Rathbone
charming
A charming and evocative book. I've deducted a star for the unimaginative choice of photos and a page of maps with routes shown would have been handy.
Published 18 months ago by Terence Marriott
A must for rail enthusiasts
I just love this. I am a railway enthusiast and writer - NOT an anorak. I've been on quite a few of the journeys in the book and am looking forward to doing the others. Read more
Published 18 months ago by M. Souter
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