Tiny Stations (Paperback)
 
作者: Dixe Wills 
書城編號: 1076042

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出版社: AA PUBLISHING
出版日期: 2016/06/01
尺寸: 210x150x22mm
重量: 0.32 kg
ISBN: 9780749577322

商品簡介
Take an eccentric look at lost Britain through its railway request stops. Perhaps the oddest quirk of Britain's railway network is also one of its least well known: around 150 of the nation's stations are request stops. Take an unassuming station like Shippea Hill in Cambridgeshire--the scene of a fatal accident involving thousands of carrots. Or Talsarnau in Wales, which experienced a tsunami. Tiny Stations is the story of the author's journey from the far west of Cornwall to the far north of Scotland, visiting around 40 of the most interesting of these little used and ill-regarded stations. Often a pen-stroke away from closure--kept alive by political expediency, labyrinthine bureaucracy, or sheer whimsy--these half-abandoned stops afford a fascinating glimpse of a Britain that has all but disappeared from view. There are stations built to serve once thriving industries--copper mines, smelting works, cotton mills, and china clay quarries where the first trains were pulled by horses; stations erected for the sole convenience of stately home and castle owners through whose land the new iron road cut an unwelcome swathe; stations created for Victorian day-tripping attractions; a station built for a cavalry barracks whose last horse has long since bolted; and many more. Dixe Wills will leave you in no doubt that there's more to tiny stations than you might think.
Dixe Wills 作者作品表

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Tiny Histories (Paperback)

Wisdom of Nature (Hardcover)

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Tiny Britain (Hardcover)

Tiny Histories: Trivial Events and Trifling Decisions that Changed British History (Hardcover)

eBook: Tiny Histories (DRM EPUB)

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Tiny Churches (Hardcover)

Tiny Stations (Paperback)

At Night: A Journey Round Britain from Dusk to Dawn (hardcover)

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Tiny Islands (Paperback)

Tiny Campsites (Paperback)

Places to Hide: In England, Scotland and Wales (Paperback)

New World Order: Every Country on Earth. Sorted. (Hardcover)

Places to Hide (Hardcover)

Z to Z of Great Britain (Paperback)

The Z-Z of Great Britain (Hardcover)

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