Monthly Archives: May 2017

Here is a screengrab from the trailer for the new Doctor Who adventure…it has a steam loco, on a bridge, heading for a pyramid… We love Doctor Who…the present Doctor, a slightly manic Peter Capaldi as Univeristy professor, is terrific … Continue reading →

Here, apparently, is a poster published by SouthEastern Trains, the company that runs the High Speed railway service between Folkestone and London. It was reported in the local news section of the BBC website, and fed from the Kentonline newsfeed…I’m  … Continue reading →

I have just discovered the wonderful world of old railway photographs…and the people in them. These guys look just like the characters in the Andrew Martin books I’ve posted about just recently.

Lovely…

I love these banners…with their simple and sophisticated mixture of image and text, classicism and sign-writing…lots of layers there. I’ve got a John Gorham book about trades union banners…I’ll check it out.

Here is a pub sign from Folkestone…I think I’ll start keeping a record of railway themed pub signs when I see them…I’ve always loved pub signs for their obvious combination of image and text, and for the heraldic and sign-paintedqualities … Continue reading →

I’ve posted before about the pleasures of restaurants and trains…imagine if you could get a proper meal on an actual train…it would be perfect. Here’s a picture of the panoramic dining on a US Pullman restaurant… Sadly, this doesn’t seem … Continue reading →

From the earliest, the railway and reading went together. This was evident, in its most obvious form, in the railway bookstall. In Britain, the firm of WH Smith was launched from a bookstall, at Euston, and grew to become a … Continue reading →

The local page of the BBC website had a small feature on Kent’s most haunted railway stations…it wasn’t that interesting, but it got me started… If ghosts are unquiet spirits, then the railway is full of them; the railway was, … Continue reading →

I’ve posted many times about the connection between speed and desire in its various forms…just google New Pamphleteer, speed, and see what comes up… The Guardian have just published a piece about the intellectual history of Accelerationsim. You can read … Continue reading →