On the Slow Train

[rogerfarnworth]

Recently, I have read another book by Michael Williams - "On the Slow Train." It was written a decade or so ago. It is an excellent, entertaining, gentle read bought cheaply secondhand with chapters of just the right length to read at the end of the day!

Meandering Slowly Along Branch Lines! And other routes. ….

In 2019, Lizzie Pook, writing in the Independent, highlighted a movement which appears to belong in the same ‘family’ as the concept of ‘Slow Food’. [1] She said, “Whe…

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So, those of us who feel a nostalgic affinity for the heady, halcyon days when there was a branch-line to almost anywhere outside of major towns and cities, are back in vogue! We are, perhaps fortunate that not all of those wonderful old lines have disappeared. Writing around a decade ago, Michael Williams takes us on twelve ‘slow train’ journeys scattered across the UK in his book, ‘On the Slow Train’.

 

[Welshman]

Recently, I have read another book by Michael Williams - "On the Slow Train." It was written a decade or so ago. It is an excellent, entertaining, gentle read bought cheaply secondhand with chapters of just the right length to read at the end of the day!

Meandering Slowly Along Branch Lines! And other routes. ….

In 2019, Lizzie Pook, writing in the Independent, highlighted a movement which appears to belong in the same ‘family’ as the concept of ‘Slow Food’. [1] She said, “Whe…

rogerfarnworth.com

I thoroughly enjoyed it a few years back. Time to get it out and re-read it I think.
Couldn't help singing the Flanders and Swann song whilst reading it!

By the way, you're extremely well self-disciplined if you can contain yourself to one chapter per night.

 

[Iskra]

Agreed, this is an excellent and very readable book.

 

[rogerfarnworth]

I guess I am getting to old to read for too long!

 

[Mcr Warrior]

The companion book "On the Slow Train Again", also by Michael Williams, is a decent read in its own right.

 

[Gloster]

If I remember correctly, I read it and Matthew Engels’ Eleven Minutes Late at about the same time and preferred Engels’ book, though Williams’ was not bad.