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Railway Poster • Holland via Harwich • Fred Taylor • LNER • 1930s

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Railway Poster • Oxford • Fred Taylor • GWR • 1920s

Beautiful lithographic drawing by Fred Taylor for the Great Western Railway to Oxford.

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Ilse Bing • Railway Photography • 1930s

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Swiss Railway Tourism Pictures • 1940s

These are colour lithographs published by the Swiss National Tourist Office during the 1940s. They were printed by Wolfsberg, in Zurich. The artist is Alois Carigiet, and the prints are from a series called, Beautiful Switzerland… It turns out that … Continue reading

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Time and Relative Dimension in Space • For the Train • Lewis Caroll • 1856

I’ve posted before about the feelings of vertigo that derive from the sensation of speed and excitement associated with train travel…it’s all very Freudian, and psycheadelic. It turns out that the first writing by Lewis Caroll (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland … Continue reading

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Old Railway Photographs • Frank Bird Masters • USA • c1900s

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Street Art • Network Sout East • Folkestone • 2018

This has been painted on the buildimng site hoarding at the back of our shop in Folkestone. Thanks to you-know-who. Perfect.

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Japanese Railway Poster • c1935

Lovely.

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BR Paper Models • c1950

Here is the cover of a folder with four sheets of paper model trains within. Actually, it’s one loco and tender, an SR streamlined Merchant Navy or Battle of Britain class by Bullied, with a passenger carriage and a number … Continue reading

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LMS Railway Poster • AM Cassandre • 1928

Mechanical sublime.

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