[ebooktalk] Re: railways
- From: "Shell" <shell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:03:33 +0100
Yes June, I love trains and it is lovely to hear them passing regularly. In
the summer we have a steam train go past twice a day, I would love to go on it
one day for a trip.
F. G. Cottam has written a spooky looking book that I will be reading shortly
called The Waiting Room. I don't have it as an ebook, but the RNIB Have it on
talking book.
Here is the synopsis.
Martin Stride is a retired rock star, enjoying the quiet life with his young
family on their beautiful estate. On the edge of his grounds lies a derelict
Edwardian railway station waiting room once used to transport troops in The
Great War. Silent for many years, it has become a playground for Martin's
children but now they won't go near it. Strange occurrences in the waiting room
lead Martin to seek the help of TV's favourite ghost-hunter Julian Creed. But
Creed's psychic ability is a fabrication to gain viewers. He doesn't believe in
the paranormal. Until he spends a night in The Waiting Room.
Shell.
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From: "Tar Barrels" <tar.barrels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 10:44 PM
To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: railways
> Shell, thank you for the link. I'll follow that up.
> I didn't know you were also a railway fan - but I know exactly what you mean
> about the mice! I don't think we could manage without a cat, although last
> night he brought a mole in!
> June
>
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> From: ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Shell
> Sent: 19 June 2013 09:20
> To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: railways
>
>
> Hi June,
> There is a book on Kindle, which seems to be an anthology of travel writing
> about this railway line, but also talks about the history and building of
> the network.
> I have also always loved railways and when we looked at this house and saw
> that it backed right onto the rail track, I knew we had to live here. I
> love to hear the trains rumbling past all the time. The only thing we didn't
> count on was the train track's amazing mouse population, which is something
> we have to be constantly vidulent about.
> I do have some books about train travel, I will look them out for you.
> The details for the kindle book and link are
> The Trans-Siberian Railway: A Traveller's Anthology by Deborah Manley
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps
> <http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywo
> rds=Deborah%20Manley%20kindle> &field-keywords=Deborah%20Manley%20kindle
> Shell.
>
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> From: "Tar Barrels" <tar.barrels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 6:42 PM
> To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [ebooktalk] railways
>
>> 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
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> On Behalf Of Clare Gailans
>> Sent: 18 June 2013 09:18
>> To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 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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