Table of Contents

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?

Promotional Information

Also available in hardback, 9781845200824 GBP50.00 (June, 2005)

About the Author

Gayle Letherby is at the University of Plymouth. Gillian Reynolds is Senior Researcher at Coventry University.

Reviews

'This [book] is refreshingly different from the previous work in railway studies...' Ian Carter, University of Auckland