{"product_id":"down-the-line-to-brighton-9780859362399","title":"Down the Line to Brighton","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Down the Line to Brighton' looks at the length of the London to Brighton route and illustrates its varied history with original photographs, anecdotes and eye-witness accounts of the important events and people in its life. It is a story punctuated by tragedy, excitement and murder, as Muriel Searle's descriptions of the disasters, explosions and experiments which befell it will show. The elegant Regency terraces provide a wonderful backdrop to her study of Brighton as a resort for Ladies and Gentle-men, a backdrop on which the paintwork starts to peel as she tells how the railways brought in the wider world and helped it slide from Society retreat to the land where the Amusement Arcade never closes. Famous trains and engines make their way across her wide landscape: not only the glamorous Southern Belle and the well-loved Brighton Belle, but also the immortal Gladstone and the delightful Terriers. The author's generous use of contemporary railway company reports, newspaper stories, personal accounts and original photographs does much to convey the human endeavour and sheer energy that achieved so much in the planning, the building and the running of the London to Brighton Line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardback with dust jacket, 160 pages, black \u0026amp; white photographs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good\/Very Good\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Baton Transport","offers":[{"title":"Secondhand (300)","offer_id":40553490481261,"sku":"9780859362399","price":6.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1910\/7111\/products\/9780859362399.jpg?v=1676548997","url":"https:\/\/rail-books.co.uk\/products\/down-the-line-to-brighton-9780859362399","provider":"Rail Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}