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

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

• 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?

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

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

• 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?

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

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

• 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?