Abstract
I blame that Paul Theroux ... and then I realise that The Great Railway Bazaar, his 'voyage across the World Island, from England to Japan', happened in 1972, only three years after Richard Marsh closed the Waverley Line and when disinvestment in British Rail was running at its maximum, and eight years after the opening of the first Japanese Shinkansen high-speed line, which began to revolutionise a fusty and apparently moribund means of transport.
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