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There was a terrific documentary yesterday, broadcast as part of BBC4TVs Storyville strand,  called Brakeless: Why Trains Crash… You can watch it on BBCiplayer, or Box of Broadcasts The film is described, thus A documentary film exploring one of Japan’s … Continue reading →

Here is a picture from yesterday’s Guardian. If you think taking the train in Europe is bad…try commuting elsewhere!

Here are some terrific O gauge model engines…

The new edition of the European Train Timetable has just been published. That’s good news. The timetable used to be published by Thomas Cook; but they gave up on it a few years ago when it seemed that all this … Continue reading →

Styling by Raymond Loewy…

Night Mail is a 1936 documentary film about an LMS mail train from London to Scotland, produced by the GPO Film Unit. A poem by W. H. Auden was written for it, used in the closing few minutes, as was … Continue reading →

Here’s an image I found on the internet. I’ve been researching Night Mail, the GPO film about the travelling post office between London and Glasgow… This is an image of an American postal wagon, circa 1920 I guess. I liked … Continue reading →

Here’s a railway transparency from the US Library of Congress collection. The library has a group of pictures taken by an employee of the US Farm Security Administration.

Here is a page form the little Railway Quiz book I mentioned earlier….

We’ve been watching a US TV series called Hell on Wheels. It’s basically a revenge and redemption tale set in the aftermath of the Civil War and against the westward push of the transcontinental railway… The visual style of the … Continue reading →