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I love the way the railway line, now transformed into an urban walk-way, just slices through the building. In modern times, the brown-field railway hinterland of trackside and siding has become a site of huge added value. in London, check … Continue reading →

Old railways tracks are being re-purposed, all over, as new urban parks. The idea was originally realised in Paris (1993) with the conversision of the old Vincennes railway. Now, the idea has been made in extended form, around the route … Continue reading →

When you haver the time, on the railway platform, and look carefully…you see letters and numbers all around, and moving through. My kind of beautiful; type in space

Table-top vinyl in lovely camo pattern

C4 are streaming Bullet Train (2022). This is a Tarantino Kill Bill style action film without the scrambled time-line complexities; but with plenty of excitement, and with a snake, on a train!

The Kanopy streaming service, available with your UAL login, is showing the BBC film of the famous French story, La Bete Humaine (1890) by Emile Zola… https://www.kanopy.com/en/arts/video/12643333 I’ve posted before about this story and its various film adaptations

This is the “city” chapter of Rod Stewart’s model railway layout…as featured in a recent Guardian. He’s planning to make the layout even bigger.

Martin le Lapin is Charlotte Martin, an illustrator with a love of trains, and the view from the window…This is from a series of images of trains in Japan. Charlotte studied at CSM, and is now a based in Folkestone.