Andrew Martin Belles and Whistles (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Belles and WhistlesCondition: NewSubtitle: Journeys Through Time on Britain's TrainsISBN-10: 1781252130EAN: 9781781252130ISBN: 9781781252130Edition: MainPublisher: Profile Books LtdFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 07/02/2015Description: 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 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 and reportage from the present and romantic evocations of the past.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 196mmItem Length: 128mmItem Width: 22mmItem Weight: 180gAuthor: Andrew MartinGenre: HistoryTopic: Travel & TransportRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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