1st Edition
Train Tracks Work, Play and Politics on the Railways
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book provides an in-depth exploration of trains and train travel. Letherby and Reynolds have conducted extensive research with all those concerned with trains, from leisure travelers and enthusiasts to railway workers and commuters. Overturning conventional wisdom, they show that the train has a social life in and of itself and is not simply a way to get from A to B.The book also looks at the... Read more
Introduction: The Train Now Standing * Points and Branch Lines: Locating the Train in Time, Place and Space * Leaves on the Line: Current Discourses of the Train * Signs and Signals: Finding the Train in Western Culture * All Aboard the 'Play Station': Leisure and the Train * Working on the Line: Working Patters and the Train * Standing Room Only: Personal Politics and the Train * Final Reflections: Light at the End of the Tunnel?
Biography
Gayle Letherby is at the University of Plymouth.Gillian Reynolds is Senior Researcher at Coventry University.
This [book] is refreshingly different from the previous work in railway studies. . . - Ian Carter, University of Auckland
