Books with title The Christmas Dove: A Journey With the Christ Child

'The Christmas Journey' is a children's short ghost story woven around an historic event from the Victorian period. On Christmas Eve 1874, a Great Western steam train left Paddington Station in London bound for Birkenhead in the North West of England. Sadly, travelling through freezing temperatures, ice and snow it never reached its destination. Packed with passengers returning home for Christmas the train stopped at Reading and Oxford stations before continuing its journey. The historic content and factual detail of the story have been meticulously researched though contemporary eye witness accounts and newspaper reports and a visit to the site of the incident. The story sets two fictional characters at its centre. Harriet and James join the train with their Uncle Edward at Oxford. The children have been staying with their uncle and auntie while their mother has been recuperating from an illness and both are excited to be returning to their parents in Banbury in time for Christmas. However, their Christmas journey is tragically cut short.