IMAGINE you could create your ultimate fantasy train set. For me (and I suspect possibly you) it would be a network of quaint branch lines passing through some remote, timeless and beautiful landscape. The little wayside stations would be immaculate and the regular train service would run on time every day of the year. The […]
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“I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it,” said the travel writer Paul Theroux famously, and it seems that more of us than ever concur with him. Trains are the most agreeable, comfortable and relaxing of any form of long distance travel. Whether you are seeking spectacular scenery,
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SUCH POWER, such technology, such speed! Last month a state-of-the-art Japanese magnetic levitation train smashed the world train speed record, hitting just over 600 km/h (375 mph). The train, known as a “Maglev ”, ran perfectly and the ride was was reported to be very comfortable. What was there not to celebrate? Yet somehow there
A low moan ripples along the line of commuters packed at the platform edge as my train pulls in – a sound that the condemned souls from mythology must have uttered as they headed across the Styx into Hades. The realisation dawns that it’s standing room only yet again aboard the “Train from Hell” –
It was one of the most delicious yet poignant meals I have ever enjoyed aboard a railway train. The Smoked Haddock Arnold Bennett Crepe was delicious, and the rib-eye steak grilled to a tee. Solicitous stewards served rhubarb and ginger pavlova as the eastern counties flashed past the window in the setting sun But when
Surely it was always summer when we made our first railway journey,” wrote the historian Hamilton Ellis, “and everyone who has ever loved a train has a favourite railway – the first one we ever saw.” For many of us this nostalgic vision would almost certainly include a little seaside branch line train with a
“Surely it was always summer when we made our first railway journey,” wrote the historian Hamilton Ellis, “and everyone who has ever loved a train has a favourite railway – the first one we ever saw.” For many of us this nostalgic vision would almost certainly include a little seaside branch line train with burnished