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End of the Line, The by Bryan Morgan Dust Jacket 1955 255 pages
The End of the Line by Bryan Morgan
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
Copyright 1955
255 pages
Little trains fascinate; little old trains are irresistible. And across the water there survive an astonishing number of minor lines, steam, electric and diesel. Preserving the nostalgic charm of the stage coach and a solitude of which the roads have long been bereft, many are worth going a long way to see if you're made that way (and how many of us are ).
Mr. Morgan is a scientist by training, a novelist by profession (his most recent thriller, The Business at Blanche Capel, has been widely received) and a traveller by choice. He has hunted out and savoured some zoo minor and narrow-gauge lines from Calais to the Austrian Alps and from Elsinore to Orvieto.
No reader of Continental travel should miss this book, and certainly no real railway lover will. It is full of whimsical observation and colourful description, and the photographs collected from sources in many countries are brilliant and memorable. Mr Morgan (who, it appears from the last page, was named after a railhead) is not concerned with the mechanics of railways so much as with their spirit and atmosphere, and in these they are vividly typical of their place and time.
Table of Contents
The Low Countries
France
Italy
Austria
Switzerland
Germany
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