Advantages: A true story of one man's courage Disadvantages: Very distressing at times
As many of you will already know, I am an avid reader of anything and everything. I've always had a love of books and will read any book placed in front of me. Some subjects will just captivate my interest and, when my dad lent this book to me, I did not think that a book about railways would be interesting. How wrong I was!
The RRP on this is £7.99, although if you shop around, it can be found online for a lot less (try Amazon marketplace for a price of about £3). I always shop around for my books, as I am a bit of a tightwad haha! But seriously I will happily pay for a second hand copy of a book, as sometimes it is just too expensive to buy it new.
Anyway, I digress and should really get back to the review of this book.
Eric Lomax (the author) lived for most of his life in Edinburgh prior to the outbreak of WW2. While ...
Advantages: The interview Disadvantages: Not as good as it should be
, etc., which reside in the collection there.
The next scene is recorded at the Midlands Steam Centre, in Derbyshire. I am afraid that by now, this programme is becoming somewhat tedious. We are informed what one steam locomotive is, but the rest? For some reason the rest are ignored to the detriment of the overall programme it must be said.
Then we visit the Great Central Railway in Leicestershire. There are some nice, general shots of the station and yards. But perhaps too many? .
At this point, the narration is once again subsumed by the background noise. Why? I believe that the sound was recorded direct tape to tape, using microphones fixed to the cameras. This meant that very passing cough, whisper or other extraneous sounds really were picked up and not dealt with during the mixing stage.
There was also parts ...
Advantages: On time, new trains, comfortable Disadvantages: Pricy to only go a few stops, trains are infrequent on Sundays
Introduction ~~
Well the British railways are in a bit of a state. Unsafe, late and unreliable are three words that come to mind. Well those three words don't go with all of Britain's railways. Well those three words certainly don't go with Chiltern Railways, who I use a lot. They provide services between Birmingham, the West Midlands and London.
Frequency of trains ~~
Out of the many times I have used Chiltern Railways the train has never been more than 5 minutes late. And usually it is dead on time. Yes I bet your thinking if only all British rail services were like Chiltern Railways.
Trains are very frequent in the week and on Saturdays but trains are very infrequent on Sundays and the service is restricted. The service is also interrupted on Sundays due to track maintenance.
Value ~~
Not great.
Comfort ~~
All ...
Disillusioned 04.09.2001
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