During the Covid-19 crisis we have either been confined to a small area or have to bear the strain of taking risks to travel for essential work. This has led to a longing for the days when we could travel by train without potentially putting ourselves in danger. Our Reading Between the Lines series allows to take these journeys with some of Wales’ best writers for company!

All subscribers with access to Planet Digital can enjoy revisiting this series. Reading Between the Lines takes the reader on a journey across Wales with writers responding to past, present or potential stretches of Wales’s rail network. This is one example of how Planet gives insights into different narratives of Welsh experience, and brings a fragmented country into dialogue with itself. The series plugs into widespread discontent with Wales’s travel infrastructure, and offers new angles on social justice issues such as poverty, climate change and racism – but also offers a means of escape into beautifully descriptive landscapes of travel writing, history and folklore…

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