Monthly Archives: September 2013

Japanese Trains

My friend and colleague Dave Hendley, photography tutor at CSM, is travelling in Japan. Mostly, he seems to be letting the train take the strain…Good thinking! This is the inside of the bullet-train express. It looks like the shuttle in … Continue reading

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Posters Trains and TV

  I usually watch the BBC4 TVs documentaries about railways and steam trains.  In amongst the old photographs and film footage, you can usually see a bit of how posters were displayed on the platform and around the station. That’s … Continue reading

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Railways and Commercial Photography

Here’s a terrific photograph of a streamlined railway locomotive from the 1930s. It’s from a book about the development of commercial photography in Britain during the 1930s. There are groups of images relating to fashion and industrial objects. There are … Continue reading

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