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A very absorbing read I wish Upshott really existed.
Where’s the plot in this book? It’s more like a slow scenic branch line leading no place than an inter-city main line train taking you somewhere big. I prefer the main line. I call this a bedtime read, if that’s your thing.
Giles Eton really knows how to carry you away to another place and time. This is escapism at its purest. My husband loved all the railway stuff but for me it was the Station Master’s struggle against all the goings on around him to make a relationship with the local lace maker that made the best read. It would be a spoiler to say any more.
My grandpa used to work as a conductor on the railroad here in the US but he never said much about it, so I was surprised to come across this book. 470 pages of railroad oriented amusement from the country where railroads began. Were there really so many railroad companies in the UK in 1874?
A happy book to read in a troubled world. Haunting ending though.
Entertaining read, I chuckled all the way.