The Slow Train
A Railway Miscellany
Seiten
2020
ACC Art Books (Verlag)
978-1-78884-092-7 (ISBN)
ACC Art Books (Verlag)
978-1-78884-092-7 (ISBN)
Take an amble across the countryside with this book, which celebrates a time when our railways were renowned for quality.
As the world speeds up, as technology takes over, it is worth
remembering how we used to live. This three-book series is a nostalgic
hymn to an era when life was slower: a meandering ramble through the
British countryside by bicycle, automobile and train.
Take an
amble across the countryside with this book, which celebrates a time
when our railway network was more than a permanently delayed
omnishambles of overcrowded and overpriced trains. Country stations and
lonely halts, milk churns and coal yards, enamelled signs and platform
clocks - these are the fragments of a more leisured age, from a time
when the local station was a well-loved institution at the heart of so
many communities. Here are gas-lit rural stations, oil lamps on level
crossing gates, enamelled signs, waiting room fires, timetables and
luggage labels. Less a clattering, steamy ride into the past than a
touchstone for joyous memories of such a vital and well-loved
institution, The Slow Train harks back to a more measured, considered era.
As the world speeds up, as technology takes over, it is worth
remembering how we used to live. This three-book series is a nostalgic
hymn to an era when life was slower: a meandering ramble through the
British countryside by bicycle, automobile and train.
Take an
amble across the countryside with this book, which celebrates a time
when our railway network was more than a permanently delayed
omnishambles of overcrowded and overpriced trains. Country stations and
lonely halts, milk churns and coal yards, enamelled signs and platform
clocks - these are the fragments of a more leisured age, from a time
when the local station was a well-loved institution at the heart of so
many communities. Here are gas-lit rural stations, oil lamps on level
crossing gates, enamelled signs, waiting room fires, timetables and
luggage labels. Less a clattering, steamy ride into the past than a
touchstone for joyous memories of such a vital and well-loved
institution, The Slow Train harks back to a more measured, considered era.
Peter Ashley is an aficionado of British culture, responsible for the Unmitigated England trilogy, Preposterous Erections (his book on folly towers) and London Peculiars (one of the first books in ACC Art Books' bestselling London series). Peter is renowned for his passion for the oddities that make this country unique, as Jonathan Meades has said, "He is the gatekeeper to several generations' memories."
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.02.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Travel Miscellany |
| Zusatzinfo | 12 Illustrations, black and white; 120 Illustrations, color |
| Verlagsort | Woodbridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 125 x 190 mm |
| Gewicht | 294 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst |
| Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Auto / Motorrad | |
| Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schienenfahrzeuge | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78884-092-5 / 1788840925 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78884-092-7 / 9781788840927 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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