I got this book out
the library along with a number of guidebooks when we were planning
our trip to Canada, so probably sometime in 2012, and have been
dipping into it from time to time over the intervening years.
It is a miscellany
of railway related writing that has appeared in the Telegraph over a
century or more.
Some are charming
snippets, comments on a particular historical moment in railway
history.
Some are more
traditional travelogues – but for example the pairing of different
eras of journeys on the Orient Express, when it had gone to seed and
in its current revival, play against each other for added interest.
While some of the
more exotic journeys sound great adventures, such a crossing the
Andes, most failed the test of suitability for holidays. Many had a
little too much in common with Griff Rhys Jones' recent programmes
“Africa by train” for which a better subtitle would have been
“the continent's best rail-replacement bus journeys”!
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