Reading on Trains Number 17: The Paddington Band and the Remoter West

To Paddington, to see the resident band, but also the station itself.

In Howard’s End, E.M. Forster wrote, ‘In Paddington all Cornwall is latent and the remoter West’, which sounds clever until you think about it. I mean, Cornwall is the remoter west – and I like the remark of the comedian, Mark Steel: ‘The first thing you notice about Penzance is, it’s …