#railwayhistory — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #railwayhistory, aggregated by home.social.
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🚂📚 Looking for books on the history of railway signalling and operations around the world!
I’m especially interested in country-specific histories of signalling, interlocking, train control and railway operating practices.
📚 My current collection:
✅ United Kingdom
✅ France
✅ Germany
🔎 New Zealand — title known, copy still missing
🔎 Norway — title known, copy still missing🌍 All other countries: recommendations welcome!
Know a good book, author or archive? Older technical books and railway company histories are especially welcome.
Please share titles, ISBNs or catalogue links. Boosts appreciated!
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Créacan — Progress of Locomotion. III. You don't have enough space on the road — AFD. 219
https://www.cpaphil.com/en/vintage-postcard/cpa-automobile-les-progres-de-la-locomotion
#Locomotive #RailwayHistory #RailwayArt #RailwayPostcard #VintagePostcard #TrainHistory #Locomotion #TransportHistory
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Créacan — Progress of Locomotion. III. You don't have enough space on the road — AFD. 219
www.cpaphil.com/en/v...
#Locomotive #RailwayHistory #RailwayArt #RailwayPostcard #VintagePostcard #TrainHistory #Locomotion #TransportHistory -
Liste des articles publiés sur le site-web « #Trainconsultant » à la date du 3 octobre 2026. #clivelamming #geographieferroviaire #eisenbahngeographie #railwaygeography #railwayhistory #histodon
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'Nicht mehr oder noch nicht' #FotoVorschlag
Die Reste der Libanesischen Eisenbahn stehen seit der Israelischen Invasion 1982 auf Abstellgleisen in Tripoli. Nicht mehr in Betrieb, aber auch noch nicht ganz zugewachsen. Zumindest im September 2017, als dieses Bild entstand.
#LebaneseRailways #LibanesischeEisenbahn #AbandonedRailways #LostRailways #BeirutRailway #RailwayHistory #MiddleEastHistory #VergesseneGleise #LebanonHeritage #TrainspottingHistory
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This map shows abandoned and defunct railway lines across Taiwan.
The dense network in southwestern Taiwan mainly consists of former industrial lines connected to the sugar industry. Some have since been preserved as heritage railways.
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🚂💥📜 Oh no! The mighty, irresistible force of 19th-century railways obliterated a quaint medieval law like a squirrel on the tracks. Who knew progress could be so... legally destructive? Surely, JSTOR's deep dive into this "cabinet of curiosities" is the intellectual content everyone was craving. 🤔🔍
https://daily.jstor.org/how-the-railways-killed-a-medieval-law/ #railwayhistory #legalchanges #progressintellect #JSTOR #curiosities #19thcentury #HackerNews #ngated -
https://www.europesays.com/3202565/ Express Service Opens Ruse Plant to Public on Aug. 29 #bulgaria #ExpressServiceOOD #LocomotiveRepair #RailwayHistory #RailwayTechnologies #България #новини
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Express Service Opens Ruse Plant to Public on Aug. 29 https://www.byteseu.com/2286823/ #Bulgaria #ExpressServiceOOD #LocomotiveRepair #RailwayHistory #RailwayTechnologies
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“He has never made his points better than in that half-humorous, half-tragical recital”
—Henry James, on ACROSS THE PLAINS – Stevenson’s memoir of his American journeyRead more in “Expanding Horizons: to California with Robert Louis Stevenson”
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#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #travelwriting #RobertLouisStevenson #emigration #HenryJames #railway #railwayhistory
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What’s the one thing you’ve always wanted to know about 507001? Now’s your chance to ask!
Whether it’s about the preservation of 507001, its history, how something works, or our plans for the future, we want to hear your questions.
Drop your question in the comments below and our PEPxperts will answer as many as we can through videos on our social media channels.
No question is too big, small, or technical. Fire away!
#Class507 #507001 #Merseyrail #RailwayHistory #Preservation #Railfans
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New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/arisaig-2026/
a #page containing links to all the #posts in my series about my birthday holiday in #Arisaig, listed in chronological order.
#Arisaig2026 #Scotland #photography #PublicTransport #Railways #RailwayPhotography #Wildlife #MinkeWhale #puffins #deer #TheMallard #RailwayHistory -
New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2026/07/08/arisaig-2026-25-homeward-bound-york-to-home/
The final post in my series about my Scottish holiday, detailing the final stages of my return journey.
#Arisaig2026 #photography #PublicTransport #Railways #RailwayPhotography #RailwayHistory #York #Grantham #Peterborough #Ely #KingsLynn #TheMallard #IsaacNewton #TheWoodlandTrust -
Glacier: Taming the Pass
The Canadian Pacific Railway's struggle to cross the Selkirks defined this park. Rogers Pass, at its heart, was notorious for deadly avalanches. This led to the construction of massive snow sheds and the Connaught Tunnel to protect the railway line. The park's history is as dramatic as its landscape. #Canada #GlacierNP #RogersPass #RailwayHistory 🇨🇦
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier_National_Park_(Canada)
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New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2026/06/19/arisaig-2026-13-the-glenfinnan-station-museum/
Continuing my account of my #Scottish holiday with a look at the Glenfinnan Station Museum.
#Arisaig2026 #Scotland #photography #PublicTransport #Railways #RailwayHistory #Railwayana #Museum #Glenfinnan #GlenfinnanStation #GlenfinnanStationMuseum -
New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2026/06/17/arisaig-2026-12-glenfinnan-station/
Continuing my account of my Scottish holiday (May 30th to June 6th) with a look at Glenfinnan Station.
#Arisaig2026 #Scotland #photography #PublicTransport #RailwayHistory #GlenfinnanStation #SleepingCar #DiningCar #Crane #Snowplough #OilStore #SignalBox -
Small #hike on the Martina Staza in the Una National Park 🥾
#river #bridge #trail #forest #nature #path #nationalparks #bosniaandherzegovina #travel #adventure #journey #photography #railwayhistory #hiking #roadtrip #railway
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Glacier: Taming the Pass
The Canadian Pacific Railway's struggle to cross the Selkirks defined this park. Rogers Pass, at its heart, was notorious for deadly avalanches. This led to the construction of massive snow sheds and the Connaught Tunnel to protect the railway line. The park's history is as dramatic as its landscape. #Canada #GlacierNP #RogersPass #RailwayHistory 🇨🇦
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier_National_Park_(Canada)
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Plans underway to celebrate Avoca rail milestone http://dlvr.it/TRP8bm #RailNews #Railwayhistory #Avoca #Maryborough
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Ich sprach mit einem Passanten. Der alte Rönneburger erinnerte sich noch an diesen Lokschuppen. Nice. https://mprove.de/chrono?q=53.44945,9.99159&z=17.87&t=18&m=RW023020390,,RW023020391&o=0.95&s=1
Update: 1 neuer Luftbildplan weiter nach Osten
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This is a really lovely episode of Rail Natter! 🥰
Gareth Dennis talks to Ashlynn Hudson-Welburn of the National Railway Museum’s ‘People, Pride and Progress’ project, about queer histories within the rail industry.
The recorded personal stories from around 46:50 are very moving and worth hearing if that’s all you have time for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdZVaCGtXs8
Info on People, Pride and Progress: https://www.railwaymuseum.org.uk/research-and-archive/people-pride-and-progress
#railways #history #RailwayHistory #QueerStories #LGBTQIA #Pride
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Not sure whether locals still refer to this location as 'Byer Bank', but that's what it was called back in the 19th century.
Across the road from the Copt Hill public house, visitors making their way to the nearby Bronze Age barrow historic landmark will probably recognise the location.
I had no idea it had a name, but an OS map dated 1896 has it marked as 'Byer Bank', although bank then, it wasn't used as a path/bridleway.
If you were standing here back then, you would be on the route of the Hetton Colliery Railway, a route that brought coal from the collieries at Elemore and Hetton, all the way up to Warden Law before gradually descending all the way down to the coals drops on the River Wear.
In fact, at one point, this looks to have been where two separate rail lines came together, the other one being the Rainton & Seaham Railway, coming in from the right.#sunderland #sunset #winter #railwayhistory #houghtonlespring
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This magnificent #viaduct carries the #TamarValleyLine over the river at #Calstock.
#photography #RailwayHistory #TamarValleyLine #TamarValley
