Belles and Whistles: Journeys Through Time on Britain'S Trains [Audiobook] download free by Andrew Martin
- Listen audiobook: Belles and Whistles: Journeys Through Time on Britain'S Trains
- Author: Andrew Martin
- Release date: 2015/9/21
- Publisher: PROFILE BOOKS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9781781252130
- Rating: 7.51 of 10
- Votes: 421
- Review by: Sariah Scully
- Review rating: 8.9 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/11
- Duration: 3H37M54S in 256 kbps (57.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-30
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, FLAC, WAV, WMA, MP4, MP3 (compression ZIP, ARJ, TBZ2, 7Z, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 288
- Includes a PDF summary of 33 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 24M46S (6.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: In the heroic days of rail travel, you could dine on kippers and champagne aboard the Brighton Belle; smoke a post-prandial cigar as the Golden Arrow closed in on Paris, or be shaved by the Flying Scotsman's on-board barber. Everyone from schoolboys to socialites knew of these glamorous 'named trains' and aspired to ride aboard them. In Belles and Whistles, Andrew Martin recreates these famous train journeys by travelling aboard their nearest modern day equivalents. Sometimes their names have survived, even if only as a footnote on a timetable leaflet, but what has usually - if not always - disappeared is the extravagance and luxury. As Martin explains how we got from there to here, evocations of the Golden Age contrast with the starker modern reality: from monogrammed cutlery to stirring sticks, from silence on trains to tannoy announcements, from compartments to airline seating. For those who wonder whatever happened to porters, dining cars, mellow lighting, timetables, luggage in advance, trunk murders, the answers are all here. Martin's five journeys add up to an idiosyncratic history of Britain's railways, combining humour, historical anecdote and reportage from the present and romantic evocations of the past.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Trains & Railways, Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900, British & Irish History, 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000
- Download servers: Torrent, Toorgle, MEGA, Hotfile, Microsoft OneDrive, 4Shared, Google Drive, Data File Host, Dropbox, FileFactory. Compressed in ZIP, ARJ, TBZ2, 7Z, RAR
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 10.23 USD
- Dimensions: 130x200x20mm
- Weight: 211g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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