Download The Railway Adventures Place Trains People and Stations Vicki Pipe Geoff Marshall 9781910463871 Books

Product details Hardcover 208 pages Publisher September Publishing (UK) (December 25, 2018) Language English ISBN-10 9781910463871 ISBN-13 978-1910463871 ASIN 1910463876

The Railway Adventures Place Trains People and Stations Vicki Pipe Geoff Marshall 9781910463871 Books Reviews

• got it late for christmas.
• Great narrations and views from a couple of interesting angles. I’d like to go back and see a lot more of the places missed years ago!
• This book is a wonderful companion to the "
  All the Stations" channel. Thank you Geoff and Vicki. Now I now what a "Pacer" is and what "moquette" is. Love this book and the you tube channel. Keep up the good work!
• Companion to the YouTube videos.... All the Stations.
  If you want to explore the UK via rail it's not a bad read before you plan your trip
• In 2017, the two authors undertook a project to visit all the then 2,563 stations on the national railway network in Great Britain. Starting in Penzance, they completed their epic railway adventure 15 weeks later in Wick. This project was entitled "All The Stations" and, as they travelled, they posted updates on various social media platforms (pun intended) and shared videos of their experiences on YouTube. A feature length documentary of their challenge is now available on YouTube. This book gives a taster of some of the highlights of their trip, and Vicki and Geoff hope that it will serve as an inspiration for readers to undertake their own railway adventure.
  
  The various chapters in the book cover such topics as some of the places visited; interesting facts about the stations; how the railway network is operated and maintained; some of the fascinating people they encountered; and the various different trains on which they travelled (of the 60 different classes of train that run on the network, they travelled on all bar one). I was pleased to see that my local station of Knaresborough gets an honourable mention. The final chapter gives suggestions for readers to undertake their own railway adventure by providing five different routes. Each route can be undertaken in one day, but the authors encourage people to get out and explore the different stations and surrounding areas, extending the trips over several days.
  
  However, far from being a book just for rail enthusiasts, and Vicki and Geoff go to great pains to point out that they are not trainspotters, this is a book that provides a fascinating snapshot of the communities and people that have been shaped by the railways, and will continue to do so as the network evolves. I enjoyed watching the videos posted during their adventure, which are characterised by the couple's infectious enthusiasm. I was pleased to see that this same enthusiasm for the subject is replicated in this book, which is very well illustrated with photographs taken during the trip. So, if you want to know how to rate stations on a quaint scale, or to find out why Vicki is so enthusiastic about Pacer trains (I suppose somebody has to be), then this is the book for you.