A study of the specialty train, including its history, development, and operation beginning at the end of the nineteenth century.In many ways this title, featuring the evolution of cross-channel boat trains and the many dedicated services responsible for moving international passengers to and from trans-Atlantic steamers, is an extension of luxury railway travel. But that's not the full story as it encapsulates more than 125 years of independent and organised touris...

"R eads like an extravagant time travel through Britain's opulence era where train travel was just as stylish and fanciful as the elite class themselves." — Manhattan with a TwistMartyn Pring has carried out considerable research tracing the evolution of British luxury train travel weaving railway, social and travel history threads around a number of Britain's mainline routes traditionally associated with glamorous trains. Drawing ...