Reading on Trains Number 4: Seaside Sundays

Seaside Sundays – invoking railways, Morrissey and Betjeman.

I’m writing a book about trains to the seaside, and I keep thinking about Morrissey’s terrific song, Every Day is Like Sunday – a wallow on the boredom of Sunday in a ‘silent and grey’ seaside town. Evidently, Morrissey had been inspired by Neville Shute’s novel, On the Beach, about people awaiting the spread of deadly nuclear radiation in Melbourne, bu…