"A wonderful portrait of Britain from the comfort of a railway carriage."
Exactly 200 years after the very first train rolled across England, Tom Chesshyre invites us to slow down, hop on a carriage, and really notice Britain. This isn’t about high-speed thrills - it’s about the small stuff: quiet stations, forgotten halts, and the stories you only catch if you’re paying attention.
The book kicks off (and fittingly finishes) in Darlington, the birthplace of the railways, and then takes you on a proper tour: the classic Settle to Carlisle route, the far north of Thurso, and all the way down to Penzance. Along the way, there are conversations with stationmasters, glimpses of rolling countryside, and little detours that remind you the journey itself is where the adventure lives.
Chesshyre writes with warmth, humour, and curiosity - the kind of curiosity that makes you look twice at a sleepy platform and see a story waiting. For anyone who loves travel, Britain, or just taking life a bit slower, Slow Trains Around Britain is a reminder that sometimes the best adventures aren’t about racing to the finish line - they’re about the ride itself.
Join travel writer and self-confessed "train nut" Tom Chesshyre as he celebrates 200 years of passenger railways on a zigzagging tour around the UK - the home of the railways - from the Isle of Wight to Snowdonia, Inverness and Penzance.
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Join travel writer and self-confessed "train nut" Tom Chesshyre as he celebrates 200 years of passenger railways on a zigzagging tour around the UK - the home of the railways - from the Isle of Wight to Snowdonia, Inverness and Penzance. In a small market town in the northeast of England in 1825, something momentous happened: ticket-bearing human beings began moving along wrought-iron tracks on a contraption with wheels powered by engines.
Slow Trains Around Britain features in the following genres: Gift Books, Travel, Travel guides: rail travel, Travel writing, Trains and railways: general interest
Paperback, Hardback. £11.69, down from the £12.99 cover price. Temporarily Out Of Stock.
Slow Trains Around Britain was written by Tom Chesshyre and published by Summersdale
Slow Trains Around Britain has 336 pages
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