Author Archives: Paul Rennie

Thanks to Marc for sharing

Thanks to Marc for sharing… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_Band

Official portrait

Loius Lozowick, Train and Factory, lithograph, 1933 From 1919 to 1924 Lozowick lived and traveled throughout Europe, spending most of his time in Paris, Berlin and Moscow. In the mid-1920s he started making his first lithographs. During this period he … Continue reading →

Thomas Hart Benton – the wreck of the ol’ 97, lithograph 1944 The “Ol’ 97,” a Southern Railway locomotive, officially known as the Fast Mail, was en route from Monroe, Virginia, to Spencer, North Carolina, when it derailed at Stillhouse … Continue reading →

Here are three images from Swann’s NYC auction of vintage photographs, each with a railway theme.

Here is Network Rail’s new live streaming relaxing railway dash-cam footage of Britain’s most scenic railway journeys. There’s quite a lot of cab-view footage on line already, and there are many relaxing railway sound files to help people get to … Continue reading →

Here is the advert for Network Rail’s campaign to get us all back moving about on the railway. The C19 pandemic has been very difficult for transport providers, with passenger numbers way down.