Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations

Jenkins, Simon

ISBN 10: 024197898X / ISBN 13: 9780241978986

Published by Viking, 2017

About this Item

A near fine signed hardcover copy in a likewise dustcover. Some light shelfwear to the dustcover and a couple of very small page end stains. The spine is straight and unrubbed, the binding is very tight and the text and photos are very clean and bright. Some light cover edge bumps also. Please see photos.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1740325012937

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations
• Publisher: Viking
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 024197898X
• ISBN 13: 9780241978986
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

The Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller

The perfect new gift from the bestselling author of Britain's 1000 Best Churches

It is the scene for our hopeful beginnings and our intended ends, and the timeless experiences of coming and going, meeting, greeting and parting. It is an institution with its own rituals and priests, and a long-neglected aspect of Britain's architecture. And yet so little do we look at the railway station.

Simon Jenkins has travelled the length and breadth of Great Britain, from Waterloo to Wemyss Bay, Betws-y-Coed to Beverley, to select his hundred best. Blending his usual insight and authority with his personal reflections and experiences - including his founding the Railway Heritage Trust - the foremost expert on our national heritage deftly reveals the history, geography, design and significance of each of these glories.

Beautifully illustrated with colour photographs throughout, this joyous exploration of our social history shows the station's role in the national imagination; champions the engineers, architects and rival companies that made them possible; and tells the story behind the triumphs and follies of these very British creations.

These are the marvellous, often undersung places that link our nation, celebrated like never before.

About the Author

Simon Jenkins is author of the bestselling A Short History of England, A Short History of Europe, Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations, England's Thousand Best Churches and England's Thousand Best Houses. He is a former Editor of the Evening Standard and The Times, and columnist for the Guardian.