Author Archives: Paul Rennie

A lovely poster from the early 20C by Ludwig Hohlwein; flat-colour, alps, sports tailoring and a train. Perfect.

I found this book in our local Oxfam bookstore…a fine selection of murder fiction, set on the railway. Perfect.

The TV presenter, James May, has made a fly-on-the-wall documentary about Hornby PLC. They are the go-to name for model railways in Britain. largely because they have been going for over 100 years and almost everyone remembers having a Hornby … Continue reading →

Here’s an anorak patch from the 1960s that I found today. It shows the overhead railway in Wuppertal, Germany. Technically, the railway is a suspension railway, identified as the Electric Elevated Railway Installation. There was once something similar in Liverpool. … Continue reading →

This is the SNCF yard where they send engines when they’ve finished their working life…it’s massive, and has all sorts of engines and TGVs etc. The yard is near Rouen.

The BBC news website recently had a story about a model railway layout… https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-47163833 There’s go-pro ride-through the layout which is good. The model is a re-creation of a the railway in Scotland at the beginning of the 1960s…it’s lovely, … Continue reading →

Here is a painting by Terence Cuneo. It’s a picture of the railway yards in Boulogne, France.

Here are some wonderful live-steam engineered models of railway locomotives. I’ve put the link to the whole sale catalogue on my are.na page.