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Great Railway Journeys: London to Oxford and London to Cambridge is the fourth in Roger Mason’s Great Railway Journeys series. It is a fascinating record of things that can be seen from trains running from London to the two great university cities. The London to Oxford line includes Brunel’s wonderful bridge over the Thames at Maidenhead and the Didcot Railway Centre, which is a living museum of the Great Western Railway. Included here is the story of how the author of a world famous book left the manuscript in a café at Reading Station. He had not kept a copy so he went home and wrote it again. The London to Cambridge line includes Mountfitchet Castle, a fabulous copy of the one that stood on the site shortly after the reign of William the Conqueror. There is also the Eleanor Cross at Waltham Cross, erected by Edward I in the 1290s as a tribute to his late wife, Eleanor of Castile.

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Roger is an Accountant and Chartered Secretary and has had a career as a Finance Director and Company Secretary. He now writes and presents seminars for directors and company secretaries, writes books and undertakes consultancy work. He lives in Leighton Buzzard and is married with three children and five grandchildren. For many years he has been involved in public speaking (has held senior positions in Toastmasters International) and writing professionally, and these two interests play a significant part in his life. He presents lectures on cruise ships and these are of course intended to be entertaining and interesting. With his wife he enjoys the theatre and walking, and has a continuing fascination with trains.

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