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In my other life, away from CSM, Karen and me run an antique shop in Folkestone. I specialise in vintage graphic design, old seaside posters and so on… One of our great pleasures is the weekly arrival of the Antique … Continue reading →

The TV presenter, James May, has made a fly-on-the-wall documentary about Hornby PLC. They are the go-to name for model railways in Britain. largely because they have been going for over 100 years and almost everyone remembers having a Hornby … Continue reading →

The Union Pacific engine 844 was the last steam loco built in the USA. The engine has been preserved. I like this info-graphic about the loco; although it should be a little more Klutsis… The machine isn’t the biggest loco; … Continue reading →

Here is a lovely engine badge from the modernisation period of British Rail in the early 1960s. This was the first big AC engine. And here is a lovely painting of the engine…terrific. Actually, this picture is based on a … Continue reading →

Godiva Chocolates have made a celebratory choco-loco to co-incide with the opening of  Murder on the Orient Express. The original story is by Agatha Christie (1934). The story was made into an all-star film in 1974…and just now, in 2017. … Continue reading →

Here is a screengrab from the trailer for the new Doctor Who adventure…it has a steam loco, on a bridge, heading for a pyramid… We love Doctor Who…the present Doctor, a slightly manic Peter Capaldi as Univeristy professor, is terrific … Continue reading →

I’ve posted before about the pleasures of restaurants and trains…imagine if you could get a proper meal on an actual train…it would be perfect. Here’s a picture of the panoramic dining on a US Pullman restaurant… Sadly, this doesn’t seem … Continue reading →

We’ve just returned from a trip to Japan…amazing. Needless to say, the trains were terrific. At the Railway Museum, Tokyo, we saw the original model Shinkansen (1964).

Here is a box and label for a Japanese tinplate model of the 1950s streamliner called the Kodama. This is what it looked like in reality…you can sense the speed, punctuality, and cleanliness of this version of post-war modernity: it’s … Continue reading →