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On the Tracks of The Thames-Clyde Express

By David Pendleton with photography by Gavin Morrison. Published by Great Northern, 128 pages, hardback, priced £19.99. ISBN 978-1-914227-47-9

To borrow from the much-maligned King Richard 'a map, a map, my kingdom for a map! This is a very sprightly travelogue tracing the journey of one of the lesser-chronicled named expresses from the Capital to the cities of the north – but for those with a less developed sense of geography than the book's author a simple route map would have been an absolute boon.

That gripe notwithstanding the reader is conveyed, in imagination and in a very readable style on a journey from St.

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