Railway Slice • Paris • 2025

I love the way the railway line, now transformed into an urban walk-way, just slices through the building. In modern times, the brown-field railway hinterland of trackside and siding has become a site of huge added value. in London, check out the Acton Corridor, King’s Cross and Nine Elms for starters.

Obviously, the building on the left is from about 1980. The one on the right about 1880.

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Railway Walk • Paris • 2025

Old railways tracks are being re-purposed, all over, as new urban parks. The idea was originally realised in Paris (1993) with the conversision of the old Vincennes railway. Now, the idea has been made in extended form, around the route of the petite-ceinture…

The PC was originally a track that followed the city walls and facilitated the transport of military equipment as part of the city’s security.

NYCs, High-Line linear park made this idea a staple for urban renewal around the world.

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Railway (typographic) Universe • Ramsgate • 2025

When you haver the time, on the railway platform, and look carefully…you see letters and numbers all around, and moving through. My kind of beautiful; type in space

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Railway Camouflage • HS1 • 2025

Table-top vinyl in lovely camo pattern

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Railway Cinema • Bullet Train • 2022

C4 are streaming Bullet Train (2022). This is a Tarantino Kill Bill style action film without the scrambled time-line complexities; but with plenty of excitement, and with a snake, on a train!

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Kanopy • Cruel Train • BBCTV • 1996

The Kanopy streaming service, available with your UAL login, is showing the BBC film of the famous French story, La Bete Humaine (1890) by Emile Zola…

https://www.kanopy.com/en/arts/video/12643333

I’ve posted before about this story and its various film adaptations

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Orange Crate Label • Spain • c1950s

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Railway Film Poster • France •1947

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Rod Stewart’s model railway upgrade 2024

This is the “city” chapter of Rod Stewart’s model railway layout…as featured in a recent Guardian. He’s planning to make the layout even bigger.

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Railway Riso • Hokkaido Train Furano • Martin le Lapin •2024

Martin le Lapin is Charlotte Martin, an illustrator with a love of trains, and the view from the window…This is from a series of images of trains in Japan.

Charlotte studied at CSM, and is now a based in Folkestone.

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