Monthly Archives: June 2020

My friend, Robert Hanks, took this photograph on the Cambridge-Newmarket line last week. Lovely.

Here is a diagram from the Sunday Times, Eureka; History of Invention from 1970. The diagram is from the entry about steam railways and shows the shrinking effect, on geography, of mechanical railway acceleration in the middle of the 19C. … Continue reading →

Here is a film of an American steam train winding its way through the mountains. The driver, Steve, is giving the whistle his best blast. There’s a corny voice-over at the beginning which is best to ignore… Quite apart from … Continue reading →

Here is a BBC sound recording of the famous Flying Scotsman… https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p08fmjfn