Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Andrew Martin is a rail expert and author. His previous titles include Underground, Overground, Night Trains, Belles & Whistles, Steam Trains Today and Train Teasers. He is also the author of Seats of London, a field guide to Transport for London's iconic moquette patterns.
Evocatively describes the long-bygone age of travelling by train to seaside resorts. You can almost smell the sea'
Observer
Vividly conjures a lost age
Financial Times
Charming and unashamedly trainspotterish ... infectiously enthusiastic
Spectator
Martin's whimsical little book, a feast of anecdotage, represents a memorial to the past that was not always an idyll
Sunday Times
Beautifully and amusingly written and prodigiously well-informed,
Evening Standard
Martin... has a nudgingly humorous style, occasionally breaking out into the outright comedic, and a novelist's ear for dialogue. Facts are lightly applied, the quirkier the better. [His] account of travelling through Euston and Birmingham New Street and on to the Cambrian Coast Line to Pwllheli is a standalone classic of observational comedy - I couldn't stop laughing.
Country Life
Fascinating... There's a pleasant undercurrent of nostalgia in this clever book.... Martin has a journalistic eye
The Oldie
Praise for Andrew Martin:
'Andrew Martin is the railway wizard
Telegraph
Andrew Martin has cornered the train market. He is the Bard of the Buffer, the Balladeer of the Blue Train, the Laureate of Lost Property ... the best sort of travel-writer: inquisitive, knowledgeable, lively, congenial
Mail on Sunday
Martin is entertaining company, alive to the history of his route ... Leaves you with renewed confidence that trains can still be the most civilised way to travel
Financial Times
Evocatively describes the long-bygone age of travelling by train to seaside resorts. You can almost smell the sea'
Observer
Vividly conjures a lost age
Financial Times
Charming and unashamedly trainspotterish ... infectiously enthusiastic
Spectator
Martin's whimsical little book, a feast of anecdotage, represents a memorial to the past that was not always an idyll
Sunday Times
Beautifully and amusingly written and prodigiously well-informed,
Evening Standard
Martin... has a nudgingly humorous style, occasionally breaking out into the outright comedic, and a novelist's ear for dialogue. Facts are lightly applied, the quirkier the better. [His] account of travelling through Euston and Birmingham New Street and on to the Cambrian Coast Line to Pwllheli is a standalone classic of observational comedy - I couldn't stop laughing.
Country Life
Fascinating... There's a pleasant undercurrent of nostalgia in this clever book.... Martin has a journalistic eye
The Oldie
Praise for Andrew Martin:
'Andrew Martin is the railway wizard
Telegraph
Andrew Martin has cornered the train market. He is the Bard of the Buffer, the Balladeer of the Blue Train, the Laureate of Lost Property ... the best sort of travel-writer: inquisitive, knowledgeable, lively, congenial
Mail on Sunday
Martin is entertaining company, alive to the history of his route ... Leaves you with renewed confidence that trains can still be the most civilised way to travel
Financial Times