My word that was something completely different. And by different, I mean to any book I have ever seen, let alone read. I’m not really sure where to start with this review as my brain is still recovering from the wringing out it has just received but I shall endeavour to try. WHAT ON EARTH!!! WHAT ON EARTH IS GOING ON!??!?! THIS BOOK! THIS BOOK IS MADDNESS! MADDNESS I TELL YOU! Right there I was intrigued as to how this story was going to unfold. There are distinctive characters who we are introduced to that play vital roles in answering these questions and some unexpected mysteries are solved along the way. Just by chance today I rediscovered an old ancient small-press published story of mine that, immodestly, I found hilarious! – containing this paragraph…

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Rian Hughes' books are indeed unique; they do not resemble anything else I can think of. This one makes no exception, although I think I should have read it later; it's too similar in concept as XX, and that's why it didn't blow me away like the first one did.

Something of an Ode to London and all its history and glory and the wonderful steam trains of yesteryear, this frantic and completely crazy science fiction was a joy. The first was the absolute uncontrolled design departments in the LMS where very influential people previously with the Midland Railway dictated what went on, to weak design leaders and effectively prevented advancement of locomotive performance within the LMS. Much has been written about this situation and any book on LMS locomotives will include the arguments. René Magritte – Three Favourites". Cedric Suggests. Aube Creative Web Design . Retrieved 11 October 2020.

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Subplot on the origins of the anomaly was very interesting, but occupied a short space in the book. This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sourcesin this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( August 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) The sections where the spacecraft was telling its story actually hurt my mind, time travel interdimensional stuff is not something I understand, and this was a deep dive into the idea. But my god to have thought up this part of the story is astonishing, and I did not see this coming at all. I just expected a neat little story about aliens landing on earth and chilling out. This was a lot more subtle and fabulously done. Appreciate the nod to the sun God Ra here to.Rowledge, J.W.P. (1975). Engines of the LMS built 1923–51. Oxford: Oxford Publishing Company. ISBN 0-902888-59-5. Austin appropriately surveys and discusses motor cars and their makes in the somehow regrouped or devastated overground central London (cars with inferred synchromesh, “fuel tolerances and net torque” &c.) as part of this book’s potential pattern of chaos theory or butterfly effect, cause and effect, serendipity, coincidence, gestalt …’synchronised shards of random truth & fiction’ (‘&’ or ‘and’) having been an expression that has long been googleable… And beyond the hatches the way of overground London and the other characters, there are arguments ensuing between them, particularly about cause and effect, if not synchronicity (the latter being Jung’s view of what powered astrology, not the former!)…

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David Hunt, Bob Essery and Fred James with David Jennison and David Clarke LMS Locomotive Profiles (three volumes, three pictorial supplements): On 23 January 1955, locomotive No. 45274 was hauling an express passenger train that was derailed due to excessive speed on a curve, in the Sutton Coldfield rail crash. Nineteen people were killed and 64 were injured. [24]During the daily excavations, yet another new discovery is unearthed, though this time it’s not Roman ruins or the bones of kings and dinosaurs but an enormous chamber, deep below the surface of London. Its construction ancient and its purpose enigmatic…