On The Slow Train

Author : Diccon Bewes
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781473644915

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Slow Train to Switzerland by Diccon Bewes Pdf

"Bewes' breezy prose makes him a pleasant traveling companion ... he clearly knows Switzerland inside and out." - The Spectator In June 1863 an English lady set off by train on the trip of a lifetime: Thomas Cook's first Conducted Tour of Switzerland. A century and a half later, travel writer Diccon Bewes, author of the bestselling Swiss Watching, decided to go where she went and see what she saw. Guided by her diary, he followed the same route to discover how much had changed and how much hadn't. She went in search of adventure, he went in search of her, and found far more than he expected. Slow Train to Switzerland is the captivating account of two trips through the Alps: hers glimpsing the future of travel, his revisiting its past. Together they make a journey to remember. This is a tale of trains and tourists, of the British and the Swiss, of a Victorian traveller and a modern-day Englishman abroad. It is the story of a tour that changed both Switzerland and the world of travel forever.

Author : Rev. W. Awdry
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780385374088

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Fast Train, Slow Train (Thomas & Friends) by Rev. W. Awdry Pdf

The newest Bright and Early Board Book featuring Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends, this sturdy book features a simple train adventure about opposites to share with boys and girls ages 0 to 3.

Author : Jack Benton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1074445287

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Slow Train by Jack Benton Pdf

On the evening of Saturday, January 15th, 1977, a local commuter train is delayed at a small village station by a freak blizzard. Young nurse Jennifer Evans, keen to get back to her family, plans to walk the last couple of miles to her home in a neighbouring village. She phones her daughter to confirm that she's on her way, but she never arrives home.In the ensuing police investigation, no trace of Jennifer Evans is ever found. The only evidence is a photograph taken by a fellow passenger of footprints in the snow in front of Holdergate station.It appears someone was fleeing for their life....Contacted by Jennifer's daughter, at first it seems private investigator John "Slim" Hardy has no chance of solving a forty-two-year-old mystery. But as the case begins to unravel, Slim finds himself caught in the centre of a whirlwind which will send him spinning to a dramatic conclusion.Other Slim Hardy books currently available:The Man by the SeaThe Clockmaker's SecretThe Games Keeper

Author : Michael Williams
Publisher : Random House
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781848092853

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On the Slow Train Again by Michael Williams Pdf

Michael Williams has spent the past year travelling along the fascinating rail byways of Britain for this new collection of journeys. From the most luxurious and historic - aboard the Orient Express - to the most futuristic - on the driverless trains of London's Docklands Light Railway - here is a unique travel companion celebrating the treasures of our railway heritage from one of Britain's most knowledgeable railway writers." --Front flap.

Author : Eric Flint,Dave Freer
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618246974

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Slow Train to Arcturus by Eric Flint,Dave Freer Pdf

Make Tracks to the Stars! 0 Ye civilized of Earth: send forth your outcasts, your primitive throwbacks, your religious fundamentalists, your sexual separatists¾and heck, you can even toss in your totalitarian crackpots in the bargain. Pack them all in sealed habitats, rocket them into space, and pronounce good riddance to those lunatics, oddballs and losers! But if you happen to be an alien explorer stranded on that ship and looking to find a way home Well then, your one chance lies in seeking out the true iconoclasts in a sea of nutcase societies¾for verily, it is only the absolutely original and terminally weird who shall inherit the stars! At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). "[T]he sharpest moments in this giddy entertainment are those where [Flint and Freer] blithely skewer human mores." ¾Publisher's Weekly on Rats, Bats & Vats

Author : Michael Williams
Publisher : Random House
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781848092082

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On the Slow Train by Michael Williams Pdf

Never was the sadness of the end of an affair so poignantly expressed than in Flanders and Swann's elegy The Slow Train. 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, and 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 twelve spectacular journeys will help free us from what Baudelaire denounced as "the horrible burden of time."

Author : Peter Millar
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781909807082

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Slow Train to Guantanamo by Peter Millar Pdf

Starting in the ramshackle but romantic capital of Havana, Peter Millar travels with ordinary Cubans, sharing anecdotes, life stories and political opinions to the far end of the island, the Guantanamo naval base and detention camp.

Author : David Silver
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781847997265

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A Slow Train Coming by David Silver Pdf

David Silver, the founder/director of OUT of ZION Ministries based in Israel, is an internationally recognised preacher and teacher who has recently embarked on a course of endeavouring to teach the Church about her Jewish roots and her relationship and responsibility to Israel and the Jewish people. David travels extensively conducting seminars and speaking to churches and prayer groups about the Biblical relationship between Israel and the Church, in the hope of awakening Christians to the prophetic relevance of Israel's rebirth and the calling on the Gentile Christians to co-labour with the Lord as He completes the restoration of Israel in preparation for the second coming of the Messiah.

Author : Tom Chesshyre
Publisher : Summersdale Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 1800072635

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Slow Trains Around Spain by Tom Chesshyre Pdf

Between soaring mountains, across arid deserts, parched plains and valleys of fruit orchards and olive groves, down glittering coastlines and along viaducts towering above plunging ravines... there is no better way to see Spain than by train. Rail enthusiast Tom Chesshyre, author of Slow Trains to Venice, Ticket to Ride and Tales from the Fast Trains, hits the tracks once again to take in the country through carriage windows on a series of clattering rides beyond the popular image of "holiday Spain" (although he stops by in Benidorm and Torremolinos too). From hidden spots in Catalonia, through the plains of Aragon and across the north coast to Santiago de Compostela, Chesshyre continues his journey via Madrid, the wilds of Extremadura, dusty mining towns, the cathedrals and palaces of Valencia and Granada, and finally to Seville, Andalusia's beguiling (and hot) capital. Encounters? Plenty. Mishaps? A lot. Happy Spanish days? All the way.

Author : Michael Williams
Publisher : Random House
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781409052340

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The Trains Now Departed by Michael Williams Pdf

SOMETIMES you come across a lofty railway viaduct, marooned in the middle of a remote country landscape. Or a crumbling platform from some once-bustling junction buried under the buddleia. If you are lucky you might be able to follow some rusting tracks, or explore an old tunnel leading to...well, who knows where? Listen hard. Is that the wind in the undergrowth? Or the spectre of a train from a golden era of the past panting up the embankment? These are the ghosts of The Trains Now Departed. They are the railway lines, and services that ran on them that have disappeared and gone forever. Our lost legacy includes lines prematurely axed, often with a gripping and colourful tale of their own, as well as marvels of locomotive engineering sent to the scrapyard, and grand termini felled by the wrecker's ball. Then there are the lost delights of train travel, such as haute cuisine in the dining car, the grand expresses with their evocative names, and continental boat trains to romantic far-off places. The Trains Now Departed tells the stories of some of the most fascinating lost trains of Britain, vividly evoking the glories of a bygone age. In his personal odyssey around Britain Michael Williams tells the tales of the pioneers who built the tracks, the yarns of the men and women who operated them and the colourful trains that ran on them. It is a journey into the soul of our railways, summoning up a magic which, although mired in time, is fortunately not lost for ever. THIS EDITION REVISED AND UPDATED TO INCLUDE MAPS.

Author : Michael Williams
Publisher : Random House
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781409050896

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On The Slow Train by Michael Williams Pdf

'A trip back in time' DAILY TELEGRAPH A love of railways, a love of history, a love of nostalgia. ______________________________ Get ready to board the slow train to another era, to a time when travel meant more than hurrying from one place to the next. On the Slow Train will reconnect you with that long-missed need for escape, and reminds us to lift our heads from the daily grind and remember that there are still places in Britain where we can take the time to stop and stare. This book is a paean to another age: before milk churns, train porters and cats on seats were replaced by security announcements and Burger King wrappers. These 12 spectacular journeys will help free us from what Baudelaire denounced as 'the horrible burden of time.' ___________________________________ 'Captivating' SUNDAY EXPRESS 'Deep in our soul, the railways represent an idyll that we love' INDEPENDENT 'A magical world, barely changed since the golden age of rail' DAILY MAIL 'Superb' RAILYWAY MAGAZINE 'Memory lane . . . An intriguing social snapshot' HERITAGE RAILWAY

Author : Kurt Cyrus
Publisher : Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0374370478

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Slow Train to Oxmox by Kurt Cyrus Pdf

Although he starts out in a hurry to reach his destination, Edwin Blink comes to enjoy his unusual trip on a slow train.

Author : Michael Williams
Publisher : Random House
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781409051244

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On the Slow Train Again by Michael Williams Pdf

Michael Williams has spent the past year travelling along the fascinating rail byways of Britain for this new collection of journeys. Here is the 'train to the end of the world' running for more than four splendid hours through lake, loch and moorland from Inverness to Wick, the most northerly town in Britain. He discovers a perfect country branch line in London's commuterland, and travels on one of the slowest services in the land along the shores of the lovely Dovey estuary to the far west of Wales. He takes the stopping train across the Pennines on a line with so few services that its glorious scenery is a secret known only to the regulars. Here, too, is the Bittern Line in Norfolk and the Tarka Line in North Devon as well as the little branch line to the fishing port of Looe in Cornwall, rescued from closure in the 1960s and now celebrating its 150th anniversary taking families on holiday to the seaside. From the most luxurious and historic - aboard the Orient Express - to the most futuristic - on the driverless trains of London's Docklands Light Railway - here is a unique travel companion celebrating the treasures of our railway heritage from one of Britain's most knowledgeable railway writers.

Author : Sally Crabtree
Publisher : Barefoot Books
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1905236913

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Magic Train Ride by Sally Crabtree Pdf

A ticket on the Magic Train takes the reader from outer space to underwater to a land of cakes.

Author : Thomas William Jackson
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1934-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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On a slow train through Arkansaw : funny railroad stories : sayings of the southern darkies : all the latest and best minstrel jokes of the day by Thomas William Jackson Pdf