Mile by Mile London to Paris

The Entire Route by Historic Golden Arrow and Modern Eurostar

Reginald Piggott, Matt Thompson (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

128 Seiten

2012
Aurum (Verlag)
978-1-84513-772-4 (ISBN)

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The railway route from London to Paris has always been both historic and romantic. Until the sixties the overnight sleeper train from Waterloo or Victoria was called The Golden Arrow, and its route down through France took in the coastal city of Boulogne, then hugged the Somme, scene of the most terrible trench warfare of the First World War before passing through the horse racing centre of Chantilly. Now we take the Eurostar, a marvel of civil engineering with its high-speed lines down to Dover and then racing across France through Lille, and above all the sub-Channel crossing of the Tunnel. Aurum's new Mile by Mile volume applies the cartographic method of Mile by Mile on Britain's Railways to log every mile of both London-Paris routes in forensic detail: gradients, stations, the sights to be seen from the train, the history along the route, and how both railways were built. It is a fascinating guide as you whiz through the landscape on the train.

Reginald Piggott is one of Britain's leading book cartographers and lives in Norfolk. Matt Thompson is a researcher at the National Railway Museum who lives in York.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.4.2012
Zusatzinfo	1 line drawings
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schienenfahrzeuge
ISBN-10	1-84513-772-8 / 1845137728
ISBN-13	978-1-84513-772-4 / 9781845137724
Zustand	Neuware