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![]() This disguise was so successful that the station would eventually be equated with the possibility of happiness, as in Larbaud’s poem, and romance, as in Brief Encounter. The alien new was thereby made to look reassuringly familiar, except that, after entering via the seemingly domestic door, you were shot out across a transfigured landscape as if from a cannon (as contemporaries frequently remarked). Their locations speak of the intimate connection of the station with industrial modernity, yet the stations themselves resembled classicising townhouses. The first purpose-built stations opened in 1830 at either end of the Liverpool to Manchester line, the world’s first intercity service. Opened in 1830, the Manchester–Liverpool line was the world’s first intercity service For many others, however, the station was a portal to hell: among them the indentured Chinese labourers who built railways across the US and Canada, the Indigenous peoples whose lands they occupied, and the Jews who were sent from them to their deaths. Larbaud was heir to a fortune, and could afford to muse with pleasurable melancholy on that terminal named happiness, which must exist somewhere, albeit in some now-inaccessible other place. In 1913, Valery Larbaud published a poem titled ‘The Old Station at Cahors’, which included the lines: ‘Station, a great door open to the lovely immensity / Of the Earth, somewhere on which divine happiness, / Like an unexpected, dazzling thing, must be.’ The obsolescence of the building he describes, which once connected here to everywhere but is now marooned, anticipates the war, when inveterate travellers such as Larbaud would have to shelve their Baedekers. Here you will find options to view and activate subscriptions, manage institutional settings and access options, access usage statistics, and more.While railway infrastructure enables new connections across countries and continents, the stations keep their face turned to the city If you believe you should have access to that content, please contact your librarian.įor librarians and administrators, your personal account also provides access to institutional account management. The institutional subscription may not cover the content that you are trying to access. Oxford Academic is home to a wide variety of products. View the institutional accounts that are providing access.View your signed in personal account and access account management features.Some societies use Oxford Academic personal accounts to provide access to their members.Ĭlick the account icon in the top right to: See below.Ī personal account can be used to get email alerts, save searches, purchase content, and activate subscriptions. Some societies use Oxford Academic personal accounts to provide access to their members. If you do not have a society account or have forgotten your username or password, please contact your society. Do not use an Oxford Academic personal account. ![]() When on the society site, please use the credentials provided by that society. ![]() If you see ‘Sign in through society site’ in the sign in pane within a journal: Many societies offer single sign-on between the society website and Oxford Academic. Society member access to a journal is achieved in one of the following ways: If you cannot sign in, please contact your librarian. If your institution is not listed or you cannot sign in to your institution’s website, please contact your librarian or administrator.Įnter your library card number to sign in.
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