Ebook: Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations
Author: Jenkins Simon
- Tags: ARCHITECTURE--Reference, History Of Architecture, History: Specific Events & Topics, Railroad stations, Railroad stations--Great Britain--History, Trains & Railways: General Interest, TRANSPORTATION--Railroads--History, TRAVEL--Europe--Great Britain, History, Pictorial works, Railroad stations -- Great Britain -- History -- Pictorial works, TRANSPORTATION -- Railroads -- History, TRAVEL -- Europe -- Great Britain, ARCHITECTURE -- Reference, Great Britain
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- City: Great Britain
- Language: English
- epub
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...