Sunrise on the southbound sleeper : the new Telegraph book of great railway journeys

Kerr, Michael (Journalist), (editor, author.). Attwooll, Jolyon, (author.). Bedding, James, (author.). Bell, Gavin, (author.). Betjeman, John, 1906-1984 (author.). Bradbury, Lorna, (author.). Bridge, Adrian, (author.). Coughlin, Con, 1955- (author.). Davenport, Hugo, (author.). Deacon, Michael, (author.). Gaskell, John, (author.). Gilligan, Andrew, (author.). Gimson, Andrew, (author.). Graham-Dixon, Andrew, (author.). Greenfield, R H (Richard Hilary), 1934-2005 (author.). Grice, Elizabeth, 1947- (author.). Gritten, David, (author.). Huff-David, Duff, (author.). Heath, Chris, (author.). Heffer, Simon, (author.). Hughes, Peter, (author.). Jackman, Brian, (author.). Langton, James (Journalist), (author.). McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948- (author.). McClarence, Stephen, (author.). McHugh, Fionnuala, (author.). Malkin, Bonnie, (author.). Marriott, Edward, 1966- (author.). Martin, Andrew, 1962- (author.). Matthews, Robert, 1959- (author.). Maxtone Graham, Ysenda, 1962- (author.). May, James, 1963- (author.). Moss, Chris, 1966- (author.). Murphy, Dervla, 1931- (author). O'Flynn, Kevin, (author.). Owen, James, 1969- (author.). Peregrine, Anthony, (author.). Petro, Pamela, 1960- (author.). Richardson, Nigel, (author.). Rogers, Byron, 1942- (author.). Shakespeare, Nicholas, 1957- (author). Toksvig, Sandi, (author.). Urquhart, Cath, (author.). Wells, John, 1936-1998 (author.). Wilson, Benji, (author.).

Summary: "From Prince Rupert to Patagonia, and Highgate to Hanoi (in one journey), thousands of miles of memorable railway adventures"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781845136680
Physical Description: print
xv, 335 pages ; 25 cm
Publisher: London : Aurum Press Ltd., 2011.
Copyright: ©2011.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction -- 1 Europe: Sunny Side of the Tracks / Anthony Peregrine heads from Montpellier to Rome -- Slow Train to the Edge of Europe / Elizabeth Grice on Spain's Transcantábrico -- Stitching the Balkans Back Together / Adrian Bridge see Eastern Europe moving on -- Surreal Trip to the Wrong Country -- Peak Performers / Jolyon Attwooll is impressed by a high line — and hikers -- Saving Souls on the Train to Archangel / Kevin O'Flynn -- The World's Best Train Set / James Bedding explores Switzerland -- 2 The Americas: Riding on Two Trains / Pamela Petro confronts her demons on the Coast Starlight -- Journey of Many Moons -- Wait for It ... Wait for It / Michael Deacon is impatient for the highlights of Canada -- To the South / Chris Moss heads from Buenos Aires to Patagonia -- A Rum King of Railway / Dervla Murphy has a hard time on the trains in Cuba -- 3 Africa and the Middle East: A Line in the Sand / Gavin Bell crosses Nambia -- Derailed in the Desert / Con Coughlin follows Lawrence of Arabia -- 4 Asia: From SAR to TAR / Fionnuala McHugh travels 4,000 to Tibet -- Bollywood on Rails / Michael Kerr takes the Maharajas' Express -- The Line Ends at Ledo / Stephen McClarence crosses India -- Riding Away from Radiation / Andrew Gilligan sees the Japanese flee -- Round South Korea with 'the Voice' / Peter Hugh makes a pilgrimage -- 5 Australasia: Christmas Caravanserai / Michael Kerr crosses Australia with Santa -- Tourist Feared He Would Die / By Bonnie Malkin -- Rattling Back / James Owen takes it easy in New Zealand -- 6 Crossing Continents: Highgate to Hanoi / Chris Heath takes a non-stop trip to Vietnam -- 4,887 Miles — and Anna Karenina Unfinished / Adrian Bridge is distracted on the Trans-Mongolian -- 7 Close to Home: The Line of Lines / John Betjeman pays tribute to the Great Western -- Westwards with the Light / Brian Jackman heads for Cornwall -- A Place I Know / John Wells on the Lewes station buffet -- Fleeting Delight -- How The Royal Trains Secured the Entente Cordiale -- Railing against Buses -- Travels with 'George' / Benji Wilson meets Michael Portillo -- Rail Families -- North by Train — and by the book / Simon Heffer is guided to Edinburgh -- Ups and Downs -- Railways and the English / Christopher Howse on 'a moral issue' -- Now They've Grown Up / Hugo Davenport with the railway modellers -- Bopping on the Berwyn Belle / Cath Urquhart goes train dancing -- Swept for Datong to Sheffield / In China, nigel Richardson is transported -- 8 Going Forward (and Backwards): Lost in France / Nicholas Shakespeare follows the wartime tracks of his aunt -- And Pockets of Genius / Ysenda Maxtone Graham meets the BR scientists -- East and West on the Same Track / James Langton on a great railway pipedream -- Tokyo Fairy Tale -- A Mysterious Work of Giants / Byron Rogers reports on a railway resurrection -- A Line Going Nowhere / Byron Rogers on the BR sell-off -- Road to Rail -- Engine Driver as Idol / By R H Greenfield -- Why Trains are Still Romantic / By Sandi Toksvig -- A Virtual Steppe Too Far / Leading Article -- 9 Strangers (and Lovers) on a Train: Rail Life and the Movies / Jenny Diski sees an America straight from the screen -- Carried Sideways Through the Night / Alexander McCall Smith on the sleeper to Edinburgh -- The Other Me / Ed Marriott meets the trainspotting editor of Viz -- Going My Way? / Anthony Peregrine encounters a lady in need of company -- 10 Steamed Up: A Rail Passion in Russia / Duff Hart-Davis joins some loco restorers -- Weepie That Will Never Run Out of Steam / David Gritten on The Railway Children -- The Rev W Awdry / Last word on the man who gave us Thomas the Tank Engine -- Tunnel of Love / Lorna Bradbury looks into Thomas's origins -- Thomas Reaches the End of the Line / Commons sketch by Andrew Gimson -- Chinese Hugg and Puff Over Steam Heritage / By John Gaskell -- No, Cars Aren't necessarily Better / A shocking confession from James May -- How Stress Was Discovered on Victorian trains / By Robert Matthews -- Emblems of Motion and Power / Andrew Graham-Dixon on railway art -- Last Whistle for Railway Bishop / By R H Greenfield -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements