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I’ve posted before about the pleasures of restaurants and trains…imagine if you could get a proper meal on an actual train…it would be perfect. Here’s a picture of the panoramic dining on a US Pullman restaurant… Sadly, this doesn’t seem … Continue reading →

From the earliest, the railway and reading went together. This was evident, in its most obvious form, in the railway bookstall. In Britain, the firm of WH Smith was launched from a bookstall, at Euston, and grew to become a … Continue reading →

The local page of the BBC website had a small feature on Kent’s most haunted railway stations…it wasn’t that interesting, but it got me started… If ghosts are unquiet spirits, then the railway is full of them; the railway was, … Continue reading →

I’ve posted many times about the connection between speed and desire in its various forms…just google New Pamphleteer, speed, and see what comes up… The Guardian have just published a piece about the intellectual history of Accelerationsim. You can read … Continue reading →

The artist Patrick Brill, called Bob and Roberta Smith, will be part of the art-in-public-space festival in Folkestone during 2017. Bob and Roberta have made a series of short films about the potential for Folkestone becoming an art school… You … Continue reading →

Just starting a new Jim Stringer mystery…

Here is the box of a card game I found today…I’m not sure exactly how it works, but it looks lovely. I like the back of the cards, with the streamlined LMS engine, below and the back of the packet … Continue reading →

A new luxury rail service has been launched in Japan…you can read about it and see pictures of it, here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-39776889

Here is the text of my NDB entry about Framk Newbould…The posters, above, are about railway platform safety. Frank Newbould was a commercial artist and poster designer who made substantial contributions to the development of British advertising art during the … Continue reading →

This was on the BBC news page today, lovely.