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The Mubi streaming service are showing the short experimental film, Train Again (2021) by Peter Tscherkassky. The film revisits, in accelerated form, his earlier film referencing the famous railway film of the Lumiere brothers… I’ve posted before about the railway … Continue reading →

Japan House, London, have just me a wonderful post about the history of Japan’s high-speed bullet train. Now, on the verge of super-high-speed maglev (magnetic levitation) trains. You can see their original post, here https://www.japanhouselondon.uk/discover/stories/shinkansen/?utm_campaign=1056931_JHL%20Newsletter%20-%20February%202022&utm_medium=email&utm_source=dotdigital&dm_i=4RMY,MNJ7,2JB08B,2QQSP,1 I’ve posted before about Japanese … Continue reading →

This short film combines a few of the sounds I’ve been posting about in my Music of the Rails thread – Bells, doppler effects and train noises all together. It’s not really music yet, but it could be… This is … Continue reading →

The “singing” comes from the Siemens GTO-VVWF power converters which create a musical scale when the train begins to move…

Here is a clip from a 1950s safety film from America. The clip shows the danger of being too close to the railway. In very many parts of the world the railway track is the easiest route to follow across … Continue reading →

Here is a link to a BBC radio programme about doppler effects… https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b090xv6w and there’s a short film clip to go with, here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05bxzhh It turns out that the very first scientific experiment to show the doppler effect was carried … Continue reading →