{"product_id":"great-days-of-the-express-trains-by-david-st-john-thomas-patrick-whitehouse-dj","title":"Great Days of the Express Trains by David St John Thomas \u0026 Patrick Whitehouse DJ","description":"\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" size=\"4\" style=\"font-family:Arial\"\u003e\n\u003c!-- HTML Generated by Auction Wizard 2000 - http:\/\/www.AuctionWizard2000.com\/ --\u003e\n\n\n\u003c!-- AW2KLOT#:65380 --\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width:98%;padding:2px;margin:auto;border:5px outset #673434;background-color:#FDF3D0\"\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"border:1px inset #673434;margin:5px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width:100%;border:0px;padding:5px;\"\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"padding:5px\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial Black;font-size:1.5em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration: 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Whitehouse DJ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003eGreat Days of the Express Trains by David St John Thomas \u0026amp; Patrick Whitehouse \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003eHard cover with dust jacket  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003eCopyright 1990 Greenwich Editions   \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003e208 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003eCONTENTS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003e1 INTRODUCTION\u003cspan style=\"white-space:pre\"\u003e\t\u003c\/span\u003e7\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003ePassing Through\u003cspan style=\"white-space:pre\"\u003e\t\u003c\/span\u003e18\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003e2 BY TRAIN AND PLATFORM\u003cspan style=\"white-space:pre\"\u003e\t\u003c\/span\u003e22\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003eThe Named Expresses\u003cspan style=\"white-space:pre\"\u003e\t\u003c\/span\u003e30\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003e3 THE ANATOMY OF THE EXPRESS TRAIN 33\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003eLlandudno Excursion\u003cspan style=\"white-space:pre\"\u003e\t\u003c\/span\u003e39\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003e4 SLEEPERS AND NIGHT TRAINS\u003cspan style=\"white-space:pre\"\u003e\t\u003c\/span\u003e47\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003eThe Search for Improvement: Tests \u0026amp; Trials\u003cspan style=\"white-space:pre\"\u003e\t\u003c\/span\u003e59\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003e5 SAUNTERING AT LONDON TERMINI\u003cspan style=\"white-space:pre\"\u003e\t\u003c\/span\u003e65\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003eExcursions Ever Further\u003cspan style=\"white-space:pre\"\u003e\t\u003c\/span\u003e81\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003e6 CHANGE HERE FOR JOURNEY'S END\u003cspan style=\"white-space:pre\"\u003e\t\u003c\/span\u003e89\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003eLuxury Trains and Streamliners\u003cspan style=\"white-space:pre\"\u003e\t\u003c\/span\u003e101\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003e7 DAY TRIP TO LONDON\u003cspan style=\"white-space:pre\"\u003e\t\u003c\/span\u003e110\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003eAllocations\u003cspan style=\"white-space:pre\"\u003e\t\u003c\/span\u003e123\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003e8 AN ENGINEER ON THE FOOTPLATE\u003cspan style=\"white-space:pre\"\u003e\t\u003c\/span\u003e128\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003ePrecursors to Heathrow\u003cspan style=\"white-space:pre\"\u003e\t\u003c\/span\u003e138\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003e9 CROSS-COUNTRY INSTITUTIONS\u003cspan style=\"white-space:pre\"\u003e\t\u003c\/span\u003e142\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003eWartime Train Services\u003cspan style=\"white-space:pre\"\u003e\t\u003c\/span\u003e162\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003e10 SUMMER WEEKENDS\u003cspan 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style=\"white-space:pre\"\u003e\t\u003c\/span\u003e188\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003e12 LIFE AT THE SHED\u003cspan style=\"white-space:pre\"\u003e\t\u003c\/span\u003e190\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003eThe Fastest Trains\u003cspan style=\"white-space:pre\"\u003e\t\u003c\/span\u003e197\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003e13 SERVING KENT WITH STEAM\u003cspan style=\"white-space:pre\"\u003e\t\u003c\/span\u003e201\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003eACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\u003cspan style=\"white-space:pre\"\u003e\t\u003c\/span\u003e206\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003eINDEX\u003cspan style=\"white-space:pre\"\u003e\t\u003c\/span\u003e207\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003eThe great express trains of yesteryear, often heavier and traveling longer nonstop distances than is common today, knitted Britain together using the most colorful as well as powerful locomotives and took thousands of journeys which dramatically changed their lives.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003eA companion volume to the best-selling, much-praised The Great Days of the Country Railway which is again reprinted to mark this work's publication.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003eThe great express trains of yesteryear, often heavier and travelling longer nonstop distances than is common today, knitted Britain together using the most colourful as well as powerful locomotives and took thousands on journeys which dramatically changed their lives. Here we recapture the days when the train journey was the most eagerly-anticipated part of a holiday, when the expresses reflected the character of the lines they served and there was great individuality in carriages, restaurant cars and their fare, station organisation - and everyone took a keen interest in the performance of each day's run by the select named trains.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003eWith main chapters recapturing the great days of express trains in their many moods, 'fillers' highlighting more specific matters and some individual trips, a wealth of anecdote and comment in the 'snippets' in the outside column (a popular feature of the works by these two authors), a feast of colour and black-and-white photographs with expansive captions, tables and other ingredients of reference value, this book itself promises a great and sustained journey. It has been guided by a team of well-known experts and includes material contributed by those who helped run as well as travel by the great trains. Step on board!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003eThe '150' series on the four great railways (GWR, LMS, LNER, SR) by David St John Thomas and Patrick Whitehouse was recently completed by the publication of LNER 150. This extract is typical of literally hundreds of readers' letters about the series:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003e`I must write at once to congratulate you. It is a marvellous work, and entirely reflects the whole being, the real ambience, of the LNER. I can truly say this in solemn judgement, without being patronising, as I served in reasonably senior BR positions on LNE territory.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003eBut the real 'oscar' is not the one book, but the quartet, in the way that within the corporate format of the series, uniformity of treatment serves to delineate and bring out so well the differing characteristics of the four companies.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18.08px;\"\u003eAll are in the same style with main feature in-depth chapters with real reference value covering history, engineering, locomotives and rolling stock, train services and the like, between-chapter shorter items focussing on particular aspects of the railway, the background or behind the scenes events, and dozens of what might be called 'snippets' - new items of the time, anecdotes unusual events, extracts from railway documents -all bringing the railway in its various forms vividly to life. 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