[ebooktalk] Re: railways
- From: "Shell" <shell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:19:50 +0100
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&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
>
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>
> 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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