Mile by Mile London to Paris: The Entire Route by Historic Golden Arrow and Modern Eurostar - Hardcover

Piggott, Reginald; Thompson, Matt

 
9781845137724: Mile by Mile London to Paris: The Entire Route by Historic Golden Arrow and Modern Eurostar
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1845137728 ISBN 13: 9781845137724
Publisher: Aurum, 2012

Synopsis

The railway route from London to Paris has always been both historic and romantic. Until the sixties the overnight sleeper train from Waterloo or Victoria was called The Golden Arrow, and its route down through France took in the coastal city of Boulogne, then hugged the Somme, scene of the most terrible trench warfare of the First World War before passing through the horse racing centre of Chantilly. Now we take the Eurostar, a marvel of civil engineering with its high-speed lines down to Dover and then racing across France through Lille, and above all the sub-Channel crossing of the Tunnel. Aurum's new Mile by Mile volume applies the cartographic method of Mile by Mile on Britain's Railways to log every mile of both London-Paris routes in forensic detail: gradients, stations, the sights to be seen from the train, the history along the route, and how both railways were built. It is a fascinating guide as you whiz through the landscape on the train.

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About the Author

Reginald Piggott is one of Britain's leading book cartographers and lives in Norfolk. Matt Thompson is a researcher at the National Railway Museum who lives in York.

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Publisher
Aurum
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1845137728
ISBN 13 
9781845137724
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
128