Farewell to Trains by David St John Thomas
David St John Thomas is Britain's one-time bestselling railway author, who built a formidable publishing empire first based mainly on railways. In 'Farewell to Trains', he summarizes his lifetime's passion. Personal reminiscences and evocative descriptions of railway life are interspersed with extracts from over 65 years of the author's railway writings, and illustrated throughout with archive photography. In this poignant love letter, the author says farewell to the restaurant cars, the sleeping carriages, the non-stop expresses and the cheap excursion trains, the local stations bustling with the railway's peripheral trades and liveried staff, the semaphore and signal boxes, and of course the great steam engines.
'A fitting celebration from a man whose commitment to writing and railways - large and small, has repaid him with a lifetime's worth of pleasureA pleasure he has always been keen to share.' Western Morning Press
David St John Thomas is the author of many books, including a bestselling series chronicling the four big railway companies. He is the founder of the publishing house David & Charles, which he ran for 30 years.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780711234079 |
| ISBN 10 | 0711234078 |
| Title | Farewell to Trains |
| Author | David St John Thomas |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Quarto Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2013-11-07 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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