Seen From the Railway Platform (Classic Reprint): Fifty Years' Reminiscences

by William Vincent

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220 pages, Paperback

Published August 24, 2018

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[Max Borgens · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good reading! Train stations became very important in the 1850s and 1860s, and the development of W. H. Smith's bookstalls suggest a growing interest in buying "food for the mind" in railway platforms. This autobiography points out many important and interesting themes, such as the difficult working conditions in the early years of railway, the appearance of first steam machines allowing fast printing and then electricity providing good lightning. Through the bookstall manager's recollections, the reader revisits the Victorian period and the crucial changes that occurred. Without any artificiality, Vincent explores what a life of a bookseller in railway stations looked like.