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|title=The Trains Now Departed: Sixteen Excursions into the Lost Delights of Britain's Railways

|sort=Trains Now Departed: Sixteen Excursions into the Lost Delights of Britain's Railways

|isbn=9781848094352

|website=http://www.michaelwennwilliams.co.uk/

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Beaching wasn't the only buffer to the fate of various train lines of our land – it could have been sheer managerial incompetence, the birth of the package air holiday, or even road-builders' bloody-minded spite that served to bring down the end of the line. Yes, the fact you can easily pepper your words with idiom from the world of trains shows how important they have been over the last two hundred years, and this book is geared around that as well, if happily cliché-free. Our author takes us on a journey around various sites where train lines and elements of what once rode proudly upon them have been and gone. So grab a platform ticket (RIP) and see what class of journey we're travelling in.