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Last Call for the Dining Car

The Telegraph Book of Great Railway Journeys

by Michael Kerr
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Ever since Paul Theroux first embarked in London on the first train of his Great Railway Bazaar, railways have been a rich source for the best travel writing. These days, with our awareness of the global warming implications of endless air travel and the opportunity to jump on a train at magnificent St Pancras and be whisked straight to the continent, train travel has assumed a new importance and romance -- which is why so many more tour companies are offering a great train ride as part of their holiday itineraries. Now, Michael Kerr, the Telegraph's deputy Travel Editor, has burrowed deep in the newspaper's archives and collected together the very best of its writing about railway journeys. Here are journeys non-stop from London to Vladivostok; across the Canadian Rockies; the first train across Australia from Darwin to Alice Springs; on the teeming, crawling, travelling adventure of Indian railways. But there is also Boris Johnson discovering his "inner McEnroe" thanks to signal failure in the Midlands, and Michael Palin sampling the delights of British Rail Inter-City. This is an anthology that will appeal to the railway buff and the armchair traveller alike; to everyone who has ever Inter-railed in their youth, and everyone nostalgic for the days when the only way to cross a continent was by train.

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    August 15, 2011

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    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781845137496

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      • ISBN: 9781845137496
      • File size: 912 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Booklist

      September 15, 2010
      Rail buffs will welcome this collection of articles from Britains Daily Telegraph. They stretch from the introduction of railroads in the mid-1800s through the dawn of the twenty-first century. They range in length from a mere sentence announcing the possible cessation of train tea service on British Rail due to wartime shortages of china, up through a long recounting of a rail journey from the north of Scotland to Vladivostok on the Sea of Japan. Some pieces, such as Lee Langleys lament over the deterioration of the Orient Express, focus on the trains themselves. Trevor Fishlock, on the other hand, gives readers a nostalgic glimpse of actress Diana Riggs upbringing as she and her brother return via rail to her childhood home in India. As marvelously evocative as these articles may be, they only increase ones yearning for illustrations or, at the very least, maps.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2010, American Library Association.)

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  • English

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