Monthly Archives: March 2017

I was remembering that, back in 1987/1988, we took this (once-a-week?) service from Ostende to Warsaw. The train was made up of various national carriages…at various points along the route, the train re-formed to branch out, north and south, etc. … Continue reading →

Everyone is familiar with the usual layout of train timetables that plot times of arrival and departure against a list of destinations…but what if we plotted this information in a different way? E J Marey, French scientist and pioneer photogtrapher … Continue reading →

Here is a picture of the last part of a big poster project by Richard Furness. He has gone through the poster collection of the National Railway Museum and mapped each poster against its physical location! And published this informationa … Continue reading →

The author, Andrew Martin, has penned a sort of eulogy to the idea of overnight sleeper trains…these services are being killed off by a combination of technology, high-speed especially, and economy. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/30/requiem-overnight-sleeper-european-train Catch them whilst you can…

I found a copy of Jonathan Glancey’s budget picture book about the cultrual history of the railways. It was put together by Carlton in 2004. Basically, the book is a large square format, with pictures throughout and captions. That’s all … Continue reading →

We had a snadwich in the sunshine yesterday at the RH+DR…lovely  

George Pullman was a 19C American industrialist who promoted luxury rail travel. He is remembered as combining both autocratic and paternalistic personality traits. He built a railway community at Pullman, IL, that semed like a form of utopia. However, all … Continue reading →

Here is the cover of a book, published by FranckH, of Stuttgart, during 1966. The book is a classic of the 1960s, with super contrasty black and white images, and with pictorial endpapers, front and back The images were taken … Continue reading →

Here is the cover of a book I found at the week-end. I was attracted by the square format. Like a spiral binding, a square format is a sign of modern design…and well worth looking for. As I suspected, the … Continue reading →