Last Call for the Dining Car: The Telegraph Book of Great Railway Journeys - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845137701 ISBN 13: 9781845137700

Publisher: Aurum Pr Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

From Michael Palin to Nicholas Crane, a riveting anthology of railway travel covers every kind of train from the luxurious Orient Express to the insanely crowded commuter trains of Bombay

In an age when low-cost airlines have reduced travel to a point-to-point aerial bus service, the train can still take travelers on a genuine journey, nosing through sweeping valleys, across vertiginous viaducts, and stopping at tiny halts in the middle of nowhere in the dead of night. For better or worse, it brings along its own shotgun traveling community: the delightful breakfast companions chance-met in the dining car or the crazy loner with whom one faces the prospect of sharing a sleeper compartment across the Urals. Here, Michael Kerr has gone through the archives to compile a riveting anthology of all the best railway travel that has appeared in the Daily Telegraph. Here are epic forays from Wick in northernmost Scotland all the way to Vladivostok, Moscow to Peking, and on the Sunset Express across the United States to California. Historic events such as the last day of steam in Britain and less momentous but equally emblematic experiences such as the signal failure in the Midlands are also highlighted. By turns hilarious and alarming, this is armchair travel at its very best and the perfect book indeed for a long train journey.

About this title

About the Author

Michael Kerr is travel editor of the Daily Telegraph. He edited Bon Voyage!: The Telegraph Book of River and Sea Journeys.

Edition details

• Publisher: Aurum Pr Ltd
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845137701
• ISBN 13: 9781845137700
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 338
• Editor: Kerr Michael