Britain from the Rails
Including the nation's best-kept-secret railways
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2014
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2nd Revised edition
Bradt Travel Guides (Verlag)
9781841629193 (ISBN)
Bradt Travel Guides (Verlag)
9781841629193 (ISBN)
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Britain from the Rails Guide - Travel tips on British rail travel including Wales and Scotland, transportation, local history, Slow travel, regional holidays. This guide also features practical advice on fares and rail lines, secret railways, London, Great Western, local food and restaurants, hotels and B&Bs, culture and festivals, tours.
A quirky and fascinating guide to Britain's railways, Bradt's Britain from the Rails is perfect not only as an entertaining armchair read but as a handy guidebook to help readers explore the country at a slower, more personal pace. This expanded and updated second edition has an attractive fresh design, clear maps and a new section on 'Britain's Secret Railways'. Full of fascinating titbits, weird accidents and odd characters, it is a thorough and humorous collection perfect for commuters and local history fans alike. With the number of 'staycations' on the rise and increased interest in lowering one's carbon footprint, this guide helps those who don't, can't or won't drive or fly. Author Benedict Le Vey is a national newspaper sub-editor who has also written Bradt's popular Eccentric titles.
A quirky and fascinating guide to Britain's railways, Bradt's Britain from the Rails is perfect not only as an entertaining armchair read but as a handy guidebook to help readers explore the country at a slower, more personal pace. This expanded and updated second edition has an attractive fresh design, clear maps and a new section on 'Britain's Secret Railways'. Full of fascinating titbits, weird accidents and odd characters, it is a thorough and humorous collection perfect for commuters and local history fans alike. With the number of 'staycations' on the rise and increased interest in lowering one's carbon footprint, this guide helps those who don't, can't or won't drive or fly. Author Benedict Le Vey is a national newspaper sub-editor who has also written Bradt's popular Eccentric titles.
Benedict le Vay is the author of several of Bradt's Eccentric guides including Eccentric Britain. He says, 'I've asked for my ashes to be blasted from the chimney of my favourite steam locomotive at my funeral. Hasn't everybody?'
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.12.2014 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Buckinghamshire |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schienenfahrzeuge |
| Reiseführer ► Europa ► Großbritannien | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781841629193 / 9781841629193 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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