Martin’s knowledge is both encyclopaedic and full of quirky digressions, based on everyday observation - hence the book’s subtitle. He confesses to wanting to live in Marylebone station, pronounces the Central his favourite line, and admires characters such as the former London Underground official who could name all the (“mind the”) gaps on the entire network (reciting them took 20 minutes). SPONSORED Meet the hero of Everest showing the way to climb mountains safelyĪll this is lovingly chronicled by Martin, an unashamed trainspotter. 100 of the Worst Ideas in History 9781402293917 Eric Kasum Boeken bol.
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If that ethos disappeared in the post-war era and the nadir of the 1970s, perhaps it is returning now, with high-tech trains, refurbished stations and new lines once more. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for 100 of the Worst Ideas in History : Humanity's Thundering Brainstorms Turned Blundering Brainfarts by Eric Kasum and Michael N. The Underground was long a herald of modernity, from the steam trains puffing through the Metropolitan line in 1863 - the world’s first major underground railway - to the electrified deep Tube lines of the 1890s, to the sleekly designed stations of the 1930s.
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