West from Paddington - Tapa blanda

West from Paddington is the essential companion for every traveller on First Great Western Railway. Packed with information on all the landmarks, railway history, geographical features and places of interest that can be seen from your window as your journey unfolds, this indispensable guide covers three great routes - Paddington to Bristol; Reading to Penzance and Swindon to Carmarthen. A route map for each section of the journey highlights the features described, and the book includes hundreds of specially commissioned colour photographs giving a 'traveller's-eye' view. Each entry indicates on which side of the train the place or item of interest described can be found. Written by lifelong railway enthusiast and Professor of Transport, Stuart Cole, and with a Foreword by pop impresario and railway devotee Pete Waterman OBE, West from Paddington will turn your journey into a voyage of discovery.

Stuart Cole is Professor of Transport and former Director of the Wales Transport Research Centre at the University of Glamorgan, and a lifelong railway enthusiast. With over 30 years of experience in transport he has undertaken numerous transport studies covering transport strategy at a local and national level, public transport and investment appraisal. Foreword by Pete Waterman Pop impresario and TV star Pete Waterman OBE is a former fireman on steam locomotives. An ardent railway devotee, he is founder of Just Like the Real Thing a model railway manufacturer - and the Waterman Railway Heritage Trust - a body that has to date preserved 15 engines for the nation.