The Slow Train: A Railway Miscellany

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.