Monthly Archives: June 2014

Bye Bye for Now.

It’s the end of another academic year. Success to all our young people and happy holidays.

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Fast Pictures (of Trains)

I have been thinking about what Peter Wollen was saying about thrills, speed and cinema. You will recall, if you read what I wrote previously, that Wollen describes the psychoanalytical compound of excitement and desire that is evoked by the … Continue reading

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Seaside Roller Coaster Trains

Here’s a text I wrote, back in 2007, about the history of the seaside and the up-and-down railway track of the big dipper…I am a bit of an expert in the cultural history of the English seaside and have taught … Continue reading

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Ghost Trains

Here’s a picture of a wonderful machine. It’s a converted pick-up truck that can be driven along the thousands of miles of abandoned railway track in Mexico. It is a kind of spaceship that explores distant, now lost (disconnected), worlds … Continue reading

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A View from the Train (into Waterloo) by Maciej Rackiewicz

This is a small notebook of drawings from the train window approaching Waterloo. The image, book and train all synchronised…well done BAGD graduating student, Maciej Rackiewicz.

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Railways in South America – World Cup 2014

The World Cup in Brazil reminds us of how football became the global game – it travelled by train! More accurately, it travelled with the engineers that built the railway system in Latin America. For example, the introduction of football … Continue reading

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Railway Sugar

I found this at home. It’s a sugar lump with a promotional wrapper for the Russian railway. We travelled on this train in the 1980s. But, the wrapper looks as though it was designed earlier than that. I remember that … Continue reading

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