2012-11-30
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The Royal Mint’s London Underground £2 coin gift set:
On 10 January 1863 the world’s first underground railway opened in London. An engineering triumph, the 150thanniversary is being marked with not one but two new UK £2 coins for 2013.
The ‘Roundel’ £2 coin is inspired by the 1938 poster by Man Ray and depicts the world-famous London Underground logo, while the ‘Train’ £2 coin shows a Tube train hurtling out of a tunnel. Presented in a specially designed pack based on the iconic Tube map, no other memorabilia captures the spirit of London so well.
(Source: royalmint.com)
2012-11-24
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Another poster from Hit the North at Quad Royal:
Although this does go some way towards explaining a small sub-genre of northern and midlands posters, which are designed to celebrate the modernisation of the railways. Because of course it’s fine to mention these cities if you are actually enthusing about industry. The Manchester Piccadilly poster at the top probably fits into this category too (these tend, as a rule, to be post-war).
2012-08-16
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President Richard Nixon at the BART control center, Lake Merritt, 1972, and a quote from the article covering it in the San Francisco Chronicle.
From the SF Gate collection, Rail to the Chief, looking back at his visit to the Bay Area that September.
2012-05-08
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party outings 1964 front cover by smallritual on Flickr:
‘party’ here means a group of people. this is a book of suggestions for day trips to tourist destinations
2012-01-17
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HST power cab section by smallritual on Flickr.
Another from Steve Collins, one of a few cross-sections and elevations he’s posted. I have a particular fondness for the InterCity 125 cab shape. It feels like future.
2012-01-10
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A postcard issued by San Francisco’s BART at the time of its opening in September 1972, via Transpress NZ.
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Vintage BART postcard: “the most modern transportation system in the world”, posted to Flickr by bkusler. Photograph: Tom Tracy.
