[ebooktalk] railways
- From: "Tar Barrels" <tar.barrels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:42:52 +0100
Clare, I've always been fascinated by railways, and Thomas the Tank Engine
was the bedtime reading for both my boys for many years, and had long wanted
an old station as a house. What I got was a bit different - the station
master's house on a line still very well in use - the Carlisle to Newcastle
line. However, we love it.
As for railway books - I'll read anything about the railways, fact or
fiction, so was a bit surprised when I couldn't get away with Edward
Marston's detective, especially as I think some of them are set in Cumbria.
I really will try them again.
I'm just about to start a book on the building of the Burmese railway, and
though it will be harrowing, I expect it will also be fascinating. What I'd
really like ot find is something about the Siberian railways, and the people
who built those lines.
We now have a very interesting situation in the village. My husband is
called David Horne, and we live in the Old Station House, but there is
another Station House in the village, on the side of the Settle line, and
the guy who lives there is also called David Horne. You couldn't make it up,
could you? There has to be a book in there somewhere!
June
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Sent: 18 June 2013 09:18
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Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: CURRENT READING
June, I had somehow failed to realise, though you've told us a lot about it
on other lists, that you live in an old station-master's house. Some people
will remember Annette Brown from our year at school (whatever happened to
her?). She lived in the old station-master's house at Tankersley, near
Barnsley. In fact I think her dad was the old station-master. Can't remember
what job he moved on to, if any. He was a good bit older than her mum. Her
parents had both lost their former spouses and each had a girl and boy of
very similar ages. Annette's stepsister was a month younger than she was.
Sorry, nothing to do with books. Clare
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