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Oscar Wilde, Christine Keeler, Ivor Novello and Isambard Kingdom Brunel make unexpected companions on the Great Western

In Station to Station, former commuter James Attlee finds romance and malarkey along the line to Bristol

6 June 2015

9:00 AM

6 June 2015

9:00 AM

Station to Station: Searching for Stories on the Great Western Line James Attlee

Guardian Books, pp.310, £14.99, ISBN: 9780852655672

Readers who have put in some time on the railways may remember the neat, brush-painted graffiti that appeared in 1974 on a wall facing the line just outside Paddington station: FAR AWAY IS CLOSE AT HAND IN IMAGES OF ELSEWHERE.

Not until Banksy took up his spraycan did a piece of London graffiti make such a stir.

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