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Here are a set of small posters produced to encourage best-and-safe-practice on and around the station. These posters are by Bruce Angrave. They date from the early 1950s. Here is a link to a page about Angrave, here http://drbexl.co.uk/2009/07/24/bruce-angrave-d-1983/

Here is the Flying Scotsman at the Bluebell Railway, East Sussex.

Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate (1980), is a notorious film, credited with the ruination of the United Artists production company. You can read about the how and why of this debacle in Final Cut (1985) by Steven Bach. In its original … Continue reading →

The Seibu Railway Company in Japan has just issued a set of posters reminding passangers of how to behave on the train… The posters are designed in a pop-art variety of the traditional style of ukiyo-e coloured woodblock prints. Marvellous … Continue reading →

Here is a map of the historic streamliner services across the USA…

I have just started to read this crime novel…not a new idea (Agatha Christie did the same back when) but interesting.

I was remembering that, back in 1987/1988, we took this (once-a-week?) service from Ostende to Warsaw. The train was made up of various national carriages…at various points along the route, the train re-formed to branch out, north and south, etc. … Continue reading →

Everyone is familiar with the usual layout of train timetables that plot times of arrival and departure against a list of destinations…but what if we plotted this information in a different way? E J Marey, French scientist and pioneer photogtrapher … Continue reading →

Here is a picture of the last part of a big poster project by Richard Furness. He has gone through the poster collection of the National Railway Museum and mapped each poster against its physical location! And published this informationa … Continue reading →

The author, Andrew Martin, has penned a sort of eulogy to the idea of overnight sleeper trains…these services are being killed off by a combination of technology, high-speed especially, and economy. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/30/requiem-overnight-sleeper-european-train Catch them whilst you can…