My article, 'Railing through reality: Trains and mobility in Victorian ghost stories' is available open-access in this collection, along with many other excellent articles on various aspects of railway history spanning 200 years!
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Posed railway staff safety photograph, captioned 'Into the jaws of death', and showing a railwayman stepping out of the way of an approaching train, but into the path of a train approaching on another line.
NEXT WEEKEND!
Sat 25 April, 2pm
Museum in the Park, Stroud
What was railway work really like in the past? And who did the work?
Railway Work, Life & Death project co-lead Mike (of @uophistory.bsky.social) joins @jodurrant.co.uk In Conversation.
Book here:
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🚨🚨New article from our very own Nirali Joshi: "Plural policing in and through the railway: a view from India"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"Tuolta se tulee, tuolta se tulee..." ["There it comes, there it comes..."] (1979)
If you're ever in Seinäjoki, Finland, don't forget to see Heikki Varja's lovely sculpture celebrating the railway's importance to the city.
Unsurprisingly, it's in front of the railway station.
#railway #mobility
Book news! I’m pleased to say that Railway Infrastructure and the Victoria Novel is now in circulation www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
Call for Papers. Doing research on how the railway has been experienced and imagined? Join our conference on "Imagining the Railway from 1900 to the Present: People, Infrastructres, Texts"! (Åbo Akademi University, Finland, 1-3 April 2027)
#railway #transportation #train #mobility #publictransport
A new Article has been published in JTH!
"Capturing connections: Interrail photography and youth encounters, 1972–1993", by Mikko Manka.
Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Don't miss it!
#Transportation #History #Mobility
Call for Papers. Imagining Railways from 1900 to the Present: Places, People, Infrastructures, Texts – a RAILIMAGE Conference. Host and dates: Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland. 1-3 April 2027. Deadline for submissions: 30 September 2026. #essecfp.
👉 essenglish.org/cfp-conferen...