The Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More : An Illustrated History Of Railway Stations In Canada

Hardcover with dust jacket, 200 pages, oblong, 8.75x11.25 in, [22.5x28.5 cm], B&W and colour photographs.

Handwritten gift inscription on blank front endpaper. Dust jacket creased, rubbed and worn at the top fore-edge corner.

"... Ron Brown's new book expresses for us all the nostalgia for what is gone. But is also a celebration of a marvelous and fascinating heritage. He looks back to a time when stations were the heart of the community and window on the world - the place where speeches were given, where the community would bid the soldiers farewell and greet those who returned.

Brown also deals with the architecture : the simplicity of the early styles, the era of competition in elaborate design; the pattern books that resulted in hundreds of identical stations, and the grand urban stations and chateau style station hotels. Finally Brown looks at the decline of Canada's stations and at the way stations have been preserved in some communities after the trains have gone. ..." Quoted from the dust jacket's flaps

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