Rail Journeys

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Pub Date Mar 14 2020 | Archive Date Feb 28 2020

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There is always a sense of adventure when going on a railway journey. Whether it is aboard the Orient Express from London to Istanbul, or travelling the Transcontinental railroad through the Canadian Rockies to the Pacific coast, or riding the Serra Verde Express through the Brazilian rainforest, Rail Journeys takes the reader on a journey through some of the most unusual, romantic and remarkable landscapes in the world. Find out about the Coast Starlight, which carries passengers from Los Angeles along the Pacific coast to Seattle and all points in between; or the 7,000 kilometre Trans-Siberian, crossing the entirety of Mongolia and Russia from Beijing to Moscow; or ‘El Chepe’, the Mexican Copper Canyon railway, a line which took 90 years to build and negotiates 87 tunnels, 36 bridges and sweeping hairpin bends as it climbs from sea level to the rim-top views it offers at 2,400m; or enjoy the engineering excellence of the Konkan Railway in India, connecting Mumbai with the port of Mangalore via some 2,000 bridges and 90 tunnels; or experience the Shinkansen ‘Bullet Train’ as it races at speeds of more than 300 km/h between Tokyo and Kyoto, passing the iconic Mount Fuji on the way. With 200 outstanding colour photographs, Rail Journeys takes the reader to some of the most historic, spectacular and remotest locations in the world, places where trains still offer romantic and astounding experiences of rail travel at its best.

There is always a sense of adventure when going on a railway journey. Whether it is aboard the Orient Express from London to Istanbul, or travelling the Transcontinental railroad through the Canadian...


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ISBN 9781782749196
PRICE £19.99 (GBP)
PAGES 224

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I say well done to the people behind this book, for the simplicity and appeal is just right. There's very little text – each continent gets a short page of introduction, and each image gets a sentence of reasonable length to tell us what we're looking at – but this is on the whole a pictorial survey of the world's train routes. I don't think the expert, mind filled with 2-8-2s and 4-10-0s and so on, would object to the wonderful representations of stations, engines and carriages that range from shaky old wooden ones to high-tech ones with balcony-styled upstairs caboose viewing platforms. And I don't think the casual browser will object to getting a nudge into the history of all the station signs we see, nor the slightly scattershot way we, for example, build and build into the Alaskan heights only to be in New Mexico overleaf, or cover one Brazil line before returning to it after an extended ride through Peru. You'll never get a book that completely matches your editorial choice – some of the images here that were shunted onto a third of the page I'd have had as double-page spreads and vice versa – but this is a really impressive global purview. A delight to pore over.

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