"That is one of the great journeys of the world. I’ve been on that journey, and it goes through valleys where there’s only the railway and there’s no motorcars, and it makes one think that, just perhaps, the motor car was the wrong invention, and if we lived in a world where there were only railways and railways served every little village, it might have been a much more civilized place, the world."
Christian Wolmar, speaking on the Monocle Weekly.