tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937414969460147900.post8920378283365320636..comments2024-03-06T07:06:38.928-08:00Comments on JSBlog - Journal of a Southern Bookreader: Trains in literatureRay Girvanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05556764642402680159noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937414969460147900.post-54921150429880240612008-07-22T11:18:00.000-07:002008-07-22T11:18:00.000-07:00Interesting trains (!) of though provoked ... than...Interesting trains (!) of though provoked ... thank you.<br><br>An addition to the list: Iain Banks' <i>The Bridge</i>, in which the protagonist lives on a railway bridge during his crash trauma coma and then boards a train which, via many horrors, takes him out to consciousness.Felix Granthttp://sammysdot.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937414969460147900.post-17733963182069084422008-07-22T12:34:00.000-07:002008-07-22T12:34:00.000-07:00The BridgeThanks! - which reminds me in turn of A...<i>The Bridge</i><br><br>Thanks! - which reminds me in turn of Alasdair Gray's <a href="http://segalbooks.blogspot.com/2007/07/lanark.html" rel="nofollow">Lanark</a>, in which the Glaswegian protagonist Duncan Thaw, after drowning in the sea, wakes up as "Lanark" on an old-fashioned corridor train that is conducting him to his personal hell in the dystopian city of Unthank.Ray Girvanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05556764642402680159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937414969460147900.post-82499715412545179582010-10-08T06:36:19.561-07:002010-10-08T06:36:19.561-07:00is there any way to get access to the BBC report t...is there any way to get access to the BBC report today??? I know it's old now!<br><br>thanks!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937414969460147900.post-84465731661111700752010-10-08T07:06:20.011-07:002010-10-08T07:06:20.011-07:00Sorry - it seems not. I checked the BBC Video site...Sorry - it seems not. I checked the BBC Video site, and it's not among their DVDs.Ray Girvanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05556764642402680159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937414969460147900.post-60971833210989691712010-10-10T07:49:13.128-07:002010-10-10T07:49:13.128-07:00what a pity!thanks anyway!what a pity!<br>thanks anyway!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com