Author Archives: Paul Rennie

Tinplate Engine Number • Basset Lowke • LMS Princess Elizabeth • 1930s

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USA Railway Loco Works Advertising • late19C

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Polish Film Poster • c1950s

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Old Railway Postcard • Warren Halt Folkestone Kent • c1920

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Model Railway Exhibition • Folkestone • 2021

To the Leas Cliff Hall, where things are starting up again, and this week-end was the re-boot of the annual model railway exhibition. I love the world of miniature detail and feeling in these models. I’ve posted quite a lot … Continue reading

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Lovely Vintage Tin-Plate Toy Train • Bing Brothers • Germany • 1900

What a lovely old train. Real Eames style.

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What the Railroad will Bring Us • Henry George • USA • 1868

The Transcontinental (a view from the west) UPON the plains this season railroad building is progressing with a rapidity never before known. The two companies, in their struggle for the enormous bounty offered by the Government, are shortening the distance … Continue reading

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Railway Poster • France • 1970s

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The Railway : An Adventure in Construction • EP Thompson (1948) • Rab Rab Press • 2020

We build the railway, the railway builds us…railway volunteer’s song One of the great achievements of post ww2 reconstruction, in Yugoslavia, was the building of the railway between Šamac and Sarajevo. The railway was built by large numbers of youthful … Continue reading

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Railway Poster • Holland • 1939

A very fast looking streamliner…

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