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BELLES & WHISTLES-FIVE JOURNEYS THROUGH TIME ON BRITAINS RAILS-BY ANDREW MARTIN
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- Condition
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- Profile Books
- Subject Area
- Steam Trains
- Book Title
- Belles And Whistles
- Educational Level
- Adult & Further Education
- Level
- Intermediate, Advanced
- Topic
- Books
- ISBN
- 9781781252123
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Belles and Whistles: Journeys Through Time on Britain's Trains
- Item Height
- 222mm
- Publisher
- Profile Books
- Item Width
- 144mm
- Subject
- History
- Item Weight
- 477g
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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In the heroic days of rail travel, you could dine on kippers and champagne aboard the Brighton Belle; smoke a post-prandial cigar as the Golden Arrow closed in on Paris, or be shaved by the Flying Scotsman's on-board barber. Everyone from schoolboys to socialites knew of these glamorous 'named trains' and aspired to ride aboard them. In Belles and Whistles, Andrew Martin recreates five of these famous train journeys by travelling aboard their nearest modern day equivalents. Sometimes their names have survived, even if only as a footnote on a timetable leaflet, but what has usually - if not always - disappeared is the extravagance and luxury. As Martin explains how we got from there to here, evocations of the golden age contrast with the starker modern reality: from monogrammed cutlery to stirring sticks, from silence on trains to tannoy announcements, from compartments to airline seating. For those who wonder whatever happened to porters, dining cars, mellow lighting, timetables, luggage in advance, trunk murders, the answers are all here. Martin's five journeys add up to an idiosyncratic history of Britain's railways, combining humour, historical anecdote, reportage from the present and romantic evocations of the past.
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Profile Books
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9781781252123
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Publication Name
Belles and Whistles: Journeys Through Time on Britain's Trains
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
288 Pages
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Item Height
222mm
Item Width
144mm
Item Weight
477g
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Railway, Travel Writing
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United Kingdom
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