Monthly Archives: October 2012

A New Book about Steam Locos

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Railway Poetics

All this talk of the machine-ensemble may conjure-up the idea of the railway as an implacable system. The Freudian themes I’ve described in relation to trains usually make things worse by speaking of anxiety and trauma… Still, things are not … Continue reading

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Freight Train Whistles in the Night

Everyone should sleep within the distant earshot of the railway. Nothing is as pleasingly poetic, or romantic, than to hear the sounds of trains in the distance. I’m not saying you need to see the railway, or feel the trains … Continue reading

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