Eleven Minutes Late
Title | Eleven Minutes Late PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Engel |
Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | 356 |
Release | 2010-02-05 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 0230740413 |
Britain gave railways to the world, yet its own network is the dearest (definitely) and the worst (probably) in Western Europe. Trains are deeply embedded in the national psyche and folklore - yet it is considered uncool to care about them. For Matthew Engel the railway system is the ultimate expression of Britishness. It represents all the nation's ingenuity, incompetence, nostalgia, corruption, humour, capacity for suffering and even sexual repression. To uncover its mysteries, Engel has travelled the system from Penzance to Thurso, exploring its history and talking to people from politicians to platform staff. Along the way Engel ('half-John Betjeman, half-Victor Meldrew') finds the most charmingly bizarre train in Britain, the most beautiful branch line, the rudest railwayman, and - after a quest lasting decades - an Individual Pot of Strawberry Jam. Eleven Minutes Late is both a polemic and a paean, and it is also very funny.
Fracture
Title | Fracture PDF eBook |
Author | Megan Miranda |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 289 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Death |
ISBN | 1408846160 |
After falling through the ice of a frozen lake and being resuscitated by her best friend Decker, seventeen-year-old Delaney begins experiencing a strange affinity for the dead and wonders whether she is predicting death or causing it.
Railway Bills
Title | Railway Bills PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain. Parliament |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1052 |
Release | 1865 |
Genre | Railroad law |
ISBN |
Railway Returns for England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland ...
Title | Railway Returns for England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland ... PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain. Board of Trade |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 936 |
Release | 1890 |
Genre | Railroads |
ISBN |
Eleven Minutes
Title | Eleven Minutes PDF eBook |
Author | Paulo Coelho |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2009-10-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0061835579 |
“The book casts a curiously sweet spell.” – Entertainment Weekly Eleven Minutes tells the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that “love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer.” A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune, yet ends up working as a prostitute. In Geneva, Maria’s despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery, Maria must choose between pursuing a path of darkness—sexual pleasure for its own sake—or risking everything to find her own inner light and the possibility of true love.
Railway Conductors' Monthly
Title | Railway Conductors' Monthly PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 974 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | Railroad conductors |
ISBN |
A Privileged Journey
Title | A Privileged Journey PDF eBook |
Author | David Maidment |
Publisher | Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | 261 |
Release | 2015-06-30 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN | 1783831081 |
A Privileged Journey, Volume 1 1940-1962 is a personal and individual account of the author' youthful enthusiasm for trains and the travels he undertook in Great Britain and on the European continent as a student and management trainee of British Railways. It is illustrated by over 140 black and white photos, mostly taken by the author himself as a boy and student. The chapters cover the emergence of the young boy's interest in steam locomotives in particular, through his 'trainspotting' days to his numerous journeys in the late 1950s and early 1960s, with many accounts of locomotive performance supported by an extensive appendix of train 'logs'. Some of the chapters are much extended narratives from articles serialised in the UK enthusiast magazine, 'Steam World' over the last decade and are also based on ten hours of verbal interviews recorded by the UK National Railway Museum at York as part of their 'Oral History' archives supported by a UK National Lottery Grant.??The second volume, to be published at a later date, covering the period from 1962 to the current time, will describe his continuing interest and records while pursuing his career as stationmaster, area manager, train planner, Regional operating manager and finally Head of Safety before his retirement in 1996 and subsequent career as an international railway safety consultant.