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Slow Trains Around Britain: Notes from a 4,088-Mile Adventure on 143 Rides

Slow Trains Around Britain: Notes from a 4,088-Mile Adventure on 143 Rides


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"Easy-going, discursive and digressive, even those to whom trains are a closed timetable will find this a charming travelogue." - Stuart Maconie Join travel writer and self-confessed "train nut" Tom Chesshyre as he celebrates 200 years of passenger railways on a zigzagging tour around the UK - where trains (proudly) began In a small market town in the northeast of England in 1825, something momentous happened: ticket-bearing human beings started moving along wrought-iron tracks on a contraption with engine-powered wheels. The contraption was called a "train". What happened in Darlington, along a 26-mile line to Stockton, would kickstart the worldwide railway revolution. Today, 1.3 million miles of tracks crisscross the planet. To celebrate the 200th anniversary of this groundbreaking event, Tom Chesshyre embarks on a journey around the country that invented trains, taking in many heritage lines maintained by armies of enthusiasts. On a long, circular series of rides beginning and ending in Darlington, Chesshyre enjoys the scenery, seeks out the history, dodges delays (best he can), reports on the current (often shambolic) state of British railways, and lets the rhythm of the clattering tracks reveal what it is about trains - especially wonderful old trains - that we love so much.

About the Author :
Tom Chesshyre is the author of thirteen travel books. He has travelled more than 40,000 miles around the world for his train books, which have included Slow Trains Around Spain: A 3,000-Mile Adventure on 52 Rides and Ticket to Ride: Around the World on 49 Unusual Train Journeys. His book writing has also taken him across North Africa after the Arab Spring, round the "dark side" of the Maldives on cargo ships, along the length of the River Thames, around the Lake District on a long hike, and on a journey through "unsung Britain" (for To Hull and Back). He worked on the travel desk of The Times for 21 years and is now freelance, contributing to the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday and The New European magazines. He lives in London.

Review :
Easy-going, discursive and digressive, even those to whom trains are a closed timetable will find this a charming travelogue. What a pleasure to share this railway odyssey with Tom Chesshyre, whose intrepid wanderings and wry observations present an engaging portrait of Britain in 143 trains. This is a book to inspire even the most sluggish of armchair travellers. Not only a paeon to the many deep pleasures of train travel, it is full of practical details, hearty enthusiasm and quirky observations. In his 143 circular train visits all over Britain, Tom Chesshyre meets passengers, railway workers, bureaucrats and trainspotters, and listens to their stories of eccentric hobbies as well as their struggles with red-tape and timetabling and making things work. And although he conveys beautifully the romance of the golden age of steam travel, he never wallows in nostalgia, taking an infectious delight, for example, in the many Wetherspoons pubs he finds in railway stations all over the country. Seasoned traveller that he is, Chesshyre still manages to give a fresh perspective to every new discovery on his journey round the nooks and crannies of the British rail network. A splendid reminder that all (rail) roads lead to Darlington and that, as with food, so with trains: speed can be greatly overrated. Two hundred years on from the dawn of the railway, Tom Chesshyre brilliantly captures the enduring appeal of George Stephenson's world-changing creation. A must-read bicentennial tribute from a self-confessed railway 'nut' who is, mercifully, neither nerd nor trainspotter. Tom Chesshyre has a gift for transforming the seemingly mundane world of trains into a thrilling ride. Slow Trains Around Britain left me itching to grab a ticket and set off on my own cross-country rail adventure. Mr Chesshyre has a perceptive ear, an antenna for gentle comedy and a knack for enlivening the mundane "Absorbing... richly illustrates the place railways continue to occupy in the British national psyche [and] should be made available to the Secretary of State for Transport" He is a connoisseur of railway conversations, making him a British Paul Theroux in that respect.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781837995271
  • Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
  • Publisher Imprint: Summersdale Publishers
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Notes from a 4,088-Mile Adventure on 143 Rides
  • Width: 137 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1837995273
  • Publisher Date: 08 May 2025
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 33 mm
  • Weight: 462 gr


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