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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.

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…