US Deisel • 1950s

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LVMH buy VSOE • 2018

Fashion and trains…I remember the LV shoot with Catherine Deneuve

and I posted about my own experience of trains and glamour, here, even before the Deneuve shoot! Good buy, Mr Arnaud.

Trans Europe Express

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Railway Safety Poster • Norman Harrison • RoSPA • 1940s

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Railway 500 • Machu Pichu • Peru

500 posts!

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Railway Trains • Edward Bawden • c1940s

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Liverpool Street Station • Edward Bawden • c1960

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A Different Metro • Jean Giraud (Meobius) • France

This drawing of the modern metro is by French illustrator and writer, Jean Giraud, called Meobius (1938-2012). His vision of a hybrid, exciting and slightly dilapidated, modernity was deeply compelling…as used in Star Wars and in Bladerunner.

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Railway Literature • Closely Observed Trains • 1970

Lovely typography

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Music of the Rails • Kraftwerk • 1977

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Railway Painting • Edward Hopper • 1965

Chair Car

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