Monthly Archives: February 2014

Here’s another picture found by my colleague, David Hendley. In this one, the engine is moving and the picture is taken, I guess, from a bridge above the tracks. The photographer has chosen his spot well. The train is moving … Continue reading →

My colleague, David Hendley, photography tutor at CSM has been busy finding me fabulous old pictures of railway engines. Here’s a streamliner from France (Paris-Lyon-Marseille). It’s not easy to get a good photo of a train – moving or standing … Continue reading →

This is a picture, from Friday evening’s Standard, of a young woman standing on a freight train parked at Hackney Wick station in East London. A harmless, if stupid, bit of fun you may think; except that the train is … Continue reading →

I found this wood-engraving on google by accident…it shows happy factory workers leaving the railway workshop against a backdrop of brand new diesel locos…This is obviously an image associated with the great Chinese modernisation of the 1950s. Implicit in this … Continue reading →