Down in a Tube at Midnight

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Railways and Fiction

Christopher Daley January 12, 2013 6 Comments Agatha Christie Andrew Martin Anticipations British fiction British popular imagination Charles Dickens Dombey and Son Down in a Tube at Midnight Emile Zola H. G. Wells industrialisation Jim Stringer series Kraftwerk Leo Tolstoy London Underground Penguin series of railway writings rail fare hikes railways Raymond Williams Stop HS2 Campaign The Jam Trans-Europe Express Victorian novelists

Christopher Daley Railways are news. On the one hand, they are the source of consternation as above inflation fare rises couple with the perceived drudgery…

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