Product Description

Do you yearn for the days when train journeys were a pleasure? This book was published by the GWR to enhance the enjoyment of their passengers. Maps, line drawings and timetables illustrate charming descriptions of the 'long swift journey from London to Land's End that has about it a certain savour of romance, a spice of adventure, which no amount of familiarity of railway travelling can destroy'.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11163 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 160 pages

Customer Reviews

A nostalgic train window seat
Why a review? This is a reprint of a legendary book, 85 years old, when the Great Western presented its own country to its would-be passengers. Long a collector's piece, now one can see why, but also understand how the landscape, and our view of it, and also our sense of travel, have changed. Your reviewer has lived 40 years in Switzerland, where the train window view is different, and the book brings back earlier travel and journeys to the English west which I made as a young man, when, despite a war, the GWR route to the west had changed less than it has in more recent times. It is not great lterature, but refreshing is that the English is sensible, clear and free from that irritation, the overloading and buzz-wording of modern advertising texts.

It also shows that those who never rode the route, and believe that Devon and Cornwall are at the end of a motorway, will remain indescribably impoverished. But that too is Britain.

Through The Window: The Great Western Railway.
It is nice to read & enjoy the Journey from Paddington to Cornwall in this book but I was rather disappointed that there were not more photographs. Plenty of other detail though & it is still a classic train journey that you can follow through the window.

railway
a nostalgic look at a train ride along the south coast, a must for train lovers