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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.
About the author
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."
Summary
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.
