On the Slow Train: Twelve Great British Railway Journeys

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Never was the sadness of the end of an affair so poignantly expressed than in Flanders and Swann's elegy The Slow Train. This beautifully-packaged book will take the reader on the slow train to another era when travel meant more than hurrying from one place to the next, the journey meaning nothing but time lost in crowded carriages, condemned by broken timetables. On the Slow Train will reconnect with that long-missed need to lift our heads from the daily grind and reflect that there are still places in Britain wherexA0;one can stop and stare. It will tap into many things: a love of railways, a love of history, andxA0;a love of nostalgia. This book will be a paean to another age before milk churns, porters, and cats on seats were replaced by security announcements and Burger King. ThesexA0;twelve spectacular journeys will help free us from what Baudelaire denounced as "the horrible burden of time."

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Michael Williamswrites widely on railways for many publications, including the Daily Mail, the Independent, the Independent on Sunday, the New Statesman, the Oldie, and the railway specialist press. He is currently senior lecturer in the School of Journalism, Media and Communication at the University of Central Lancashire. He commutes regularly by train on the 440-mile return journey between his home in London's Camden Town and his office at Preston in Lancashire.