Discover the architectural gems that are Britains 100 Best Railway Stations in this Sunday Times top 10 bestsellerThis is a cracker . . . a beautiful book Chris EvansIt is the scene for our hopeful beginnings and our intended ends and the timeless experiences of coming and going meeting greeting and parting. It is an institution with its own rituals and priests and a longneglected aspect of Britains architecture. And yet so little do we look at the railway station.Simon Jenkins has travelled the length and breadth of Great Britain from Waterloo to Wemyss Bay BetwsyCoed to Beverley to select his hundred best railway stations. Blending his usual insight and authority with his personal reflections and experiences including his founding the Railway Heritage Trust the foremost expert on our national heritage deftly reveals the history geography design and significance of each of these glories. Beautifully illustrated with colour photographs throughout this joyous exploration of our social history shows the stations role in the national imagination champions the engineers architects and rival companies that made them possible and tells the story behind the triumphs and follies of these very British creations. These are the marvellous often undersung places that link our nation celebrated like never before.However spectacular the books photographs its the authors prowess as a phrasemaker that keeps you turning the pages The TimesAn uplifting exploration of our social history Guardian