`An ardent train buff and a first class journalist' Independent
The British seaside was created by the railways - and the fortunes of Britain's seaside towns have almost always paralleled those of their railway lines. This account of travelling on the Great British Seaside Holiday is part social history, part documentary, part personal quest, and part nostalgic evocation of the trains to the sea.
The book has a strong contemporary as well as historical feel, and contains much first-hand reporting to support the thesis that the decline of many of Britain's seaside towns today is linked to the decline or loss of their railway lines. No equivalent book to this has ever been written - Trains to the Sea is the definitive history of that great British institution, the outing to the seaside.
- ISBN10 1409052621
- ISBN13 9781409052623
- Publish Date 17 May 2018
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 August 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Cornerstone
- Imprint Preface Digital
- Format eBook
- Pages 400
- Language English