myblog | Paul Rennie | Activity https://myblog.arts.ac.uk/members/paulrennie/activity/ Activity feed for Paul Rennie. Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:58:49 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 a81ef8d1724147f3a676f10a0c8e6365 Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3331 Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:22:57 +0000 US Steam • Union Pacific • mid20C

]]> 0 899f10518cec0336700589e24abcc88c Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3328 Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:36:19 +0000 Railway Poster • Japan • 1930s

]]> 0 526e1151b143188e8c733bf5945e44ce Paul Rennie posted a new activity comment https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2018/09/14/music-of-the-rails-%e2%80%a2-sncf-%e2%80%a2-station-audio-ident-%e2%80%a2-2000s/#comment-147923 Sat, 28 Mar 2026 12:13:12 +0000 28/03/26 BBCR3 speaks with Michael Boumendil, sonic branding designer, about how he created this ident…

In reply to - Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM This is definitely a kind of music, but I’m looking for this sampled and looped…and turned into something that’s not just a ring-tone. The starting point […] ]]> 54e69dda083f4adb608d8ee7532c6ca1 Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3326 Fri, 16 Jan 2026 12:54:32 +0000 Indian Railways • Bandhgala Jacket • 2026 Screenshot The Guardian ran a piece about the how Indian railways are proposing to replace the historic jacket styl3w of their employees.

]]> 0 f260d774f82d8317937e21b4e09e3347 Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3321 Sat, 27 Dec 2025 16:40:07 +0000 Railway Murder Mystery • Andrew Martin • 2025 Railway publishing is a thing. The 19C railway journey provided the perfect environment for reading…and gave rise to a particular k […]

]]> 0 c6053250b60d2a6e39229bbb4e7f0f1b Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3317 Wed, 17 Dec 2025 14:00:31 +0000 Railway Poster • STO poster • France • WW2 This French WW2 poster was made to remind workers to return from their work in Germany. The Service du Travail Obligatoire (STO) was […]

]]> 0 1ebda58e413e617165027d10bb677eb4 Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3315 Fri, 21 Nov 2025 17:04:28 +0000 Railway Photography • USA • Sid Kaplan • c1988 Slightly ruined trackside grain elevator…a terrible beauty

]]> 0 c3d029533dfdd7deeabaa687a12d3b32 Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3313 Fri, 21 Nov 2025 17:02:05 +0000 Railway Photography • France • Sabine Weiss • 1954

]]> 0 edb2a7b1aa8f13d752f44e1d0bea4cee Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3311 Fri, 21 Nov 2025 16:59:32 +0000 Railway Photography • Berenice Abbott • USA • 1935

]]> 0 bc8ac262264bd55824d76ff7396bac07 Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3309 Fri, 21 Nov 2025 16:57:53 +0000 Railway Photography • Pierre Boucher • France • 1933

]]> 0 462adb63f379b8ffcb7c323a3ae5a9f9 Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3304 Fri, 21 Nov 2025 11:24:29 +0000 Railway Winter Holidays • France • 1936 Here is the cover of a book I just found in London. It is a travel guide to ski resorts in France from 1936, and sponsored by the […]

]]> 0 1a0ff595132184b765441373e509bdc7 Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3300 Wed, 22 Oct 2025 06:54:40 +0000 New Railway Clock • 2025 The railway invented the modern time system…and here, 200 years later, is the new digital time display at London Bridge. An app is […]

]]> 0 94dc1afc0de609a1b34f1d294586e112 Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3298 Sat, 04 Oct 2025 21:31:59 +0000 Folkestone Model Railway Show 2025 This was the stand-out display this year…a post-industrial fantasy, Mad Max style!

]]> 0 a80487c61d32f2e52d813291da9c8433 Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3296 Fri, 15 Aug 2025 10:12:07 +0000 Railway Photography Screenshot

]]> 0 1ff273dff5028d12fa31aef8da72446d Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3293 Wed, 13 Aug 2025 21:48:26 +0000 Railway Photography

]]> 0 4777b80cbccb2657336fc55cd4144d86 Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3292 Tue, 12 Aug 2025 16:36:25 +0000 Music of the Rails • Love on a Real Train • Tangerine Dream • 2016

]]> 0 7543f96acb1c66421b5133e93ed3a6bc Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3285 Fri, 11 Apr 2025 10:56:34 +0000 USA Railhead • Oakland CA • 1930s This photo is of the rail-head and pier, at the docks in Oakland, California. Nowadays, Oakland is one of the largest Pacific-facing […]

]]> 0 77e47c3980f113428da708a3021fcf8c Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3283 Fri, 11 Apr 2025 10:53:33 +0000 Railway Painting • France • late 19C This is a lovely small impressionist style painting, in open air, of a suburban railway station. There are many famous paintings of the […]

]]> 0 263726cad9cc8c3a32ef1dc22836a491 Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3281 Fri, 11 Apr 2025 10:44:33 +0000 Inner City Loco • Paris • c1950 This picture of a steam loco, on the ceinture line in Paris, reminds us that steam trains in cities produce lots of mess – soot and […]

]]> 0 1e817e08ad5cd88670c32a65a58a8400 Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3279 Fri, 11 Apr 2025 10:36:49 +0000 French Steam Tank-Engine • c1900 I like the look of that! The ceinture was a line built to go around Paris, so as to make journeys across the city easier, especially as the city expanded rapidly at the beginning of the 20C.

]]> 0 eaffb32a013ae53bda212c0463a4642b Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3277 Fri, 11 Apr 2025 10:33:39 +0000 French Steam Tank-Engine • c1900 I love the shape of this tank engine, for local suburban services around Paris…a sort of ideal form for this type of engine. So-called because the water tanks flank the boiler.

]]> 0 52797f75d8e4ebde1e6457832433a783 Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3274 Fri, 11 Apr 2025 10:25:56 +0000 Railway Slice • Paris • 2025 I love the way the railway line, now transformed into an urban walk-way, just slices through the building. In modern times, the […]

]]> 0 a8614bb672fc02f30f5e8a88aea29299 Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3272 Fri, 04 Apr 2025 12:22:40 +0000 Railway Walk • Paris • 2025 Old railways tracks are being re-purposed, all over, as new urban parks. The idea was originally realised in Paris (1993) with the […]

]]> 0 b086430d810984dec2c8eb6ad74b7e7e Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3270 Fri, 07 Mar 2025 13:14:06 +0000 Railway (typographic) Universe • Ramsgate • 2025 When you haver the time, on the railway platform, and look carefully…you see letters and numbers all around, and moving through. My kind of beautiful; type in space

]]> 0 21455ee0ad62b4ed1cc7bc75814a8353 Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3268 Fri, 07 Mar 2025 13:06:14 +0000 Railway Camouflage • HS1 • 2025 Table-top vinyl in lovely camo pattern

]]> 0 76db258961ce556f0439aeaeef52e1af Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3265 Tue, 14 Jan 2025 11:16:16 +0000 Railway Cinema • Bullet Train • 2022 C4 are streaming Bullet Train (2022). This is a Tarantino Kill Bill style action film without the scrambled time-line complexities; but with plenty of excitement, and with a snake, on a train!

]]> 0 eb7df5a232f39044f413b9240eaf63bf Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3262 Tue, 14 Jan 2025 11:09:55 +0000 Kanopy • Cruel Train • BBCTV • 1996 The Kanopy streaming service, available with your UAL login, is showing the BBC film of the famous French story, La Bete Humaine (1890) […]

]]> 0 7af7990c2e2585a2b8e618e139b49e5e Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3260 Tue, 14 Jan 2025 11:02:46 +0000 Orange Crate Label • Spain • c1950s

]]> 0 f7c00e44d55c236670c0a5b30be6dfab Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3258 Sat, 21 Dec 2024 13:23:29 +0000 Railway Film Poster • France •1947

]]> 0 722fab933da08f03c5fae658bb9e8243 Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3256 Thu, 12 Dec 2024 11:38:15 +0000 Rod Stewart's model railway upgrade 2024 This is the “city” chapter of Rod Stewart’s model railway layout…as featured in a recent Guardian. He’s planning to make the layout even bigger.

]]> 0 9dc8c0cec0046469e132e1ee10bad88a Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3254 Sun, 24 Nov 2024 15:13:56 +0000 Railway Riso • Hokkaido Train Furano • Martin le Lapin •2024 Martin le Lapin is Charlotte Martin, an illustrator with a love of trains, and the view from the window…This is from a series of […]

]]> 0 66c074712a11b4cad418df7027d4d46c Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3252 Thu, 14 Nov 2024 15:17:01 +0000 Music of the Rails • Sushi Train • Just Eat • Christina Aguilera • 2023I love this Just Eat baroque style mash-up…

]]> 0 60f37d7d21e82ec4483422e5eeb5a1b0 Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3249 Thu, 14 Nov 2024 14:44:59 +0000 Music of the Rails • Last Days of Disco • End credit sequence • 1998Feel-good ending, and with a nod to Soul Train…Perfect

]]> 0 2f9e56ea89aa30889da6e8163736d5e2 Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3247 Tue, 29 Oct 2024 12:07:05 +0000 Railway Poster • France • Golden Arrow • Fix-Masseau • 1980s

]]> 0 1897900774c2af26d8761cab27f41699 Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3245 Tue, 29 Oct 2024 12:05:24 +0000 Railway Poster • France • Pacific • Fix-Masseau • 1980s

]]> 0 1bf1d74564129b1f078bb2d64af3ad37 Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3243 Tue, 29 Oct 2024 12:03:13 +0000 Railway Photograph • France • 1940s

]]> 0 9bc5e08f44ab701a2ae90bbc0cec7ece Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3241 Tue, 29 Oct 2024 12:02:04 +0000 Railway Photograph • France • 1940s

]]> 0 285aea3e805763b3377691eab46969d9 Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3237 Sun, 27 Oct 2024 14:50:01 +0000 Railway + Cinema • France • Subway • Luc Besson • 1985 Luc Besson is a prolific film director who is credited with re-booting the action genre. Subway (1985) was his breakout feature…it […]

]]> 0 a7e97d14e0304cbb4ce78312a1c7be6b Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3235 Sat, 12 Oct 2024 14:11:42 +0000 Nightsleeper • BBCTV • 2024 The BBC are showing a new thriller set on the railway sleeper service between Glasgow and London…The series is available to stream on […]

]]> 0 735464755ce4c37315954b0ddef293de Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3230 Thu, 05 Sep 2024 13:52:44 +0000 Railway Poster • CH • 1950s Here is a Swiss railway poster from the 1950s…The poster combines several of my interests: posters, railways and modernist […]

]]> 0 a83df5238244c346aa64d95161b95105 Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3228 Tue, 27 Aug 2024 12:15:17 +0000 Antique Tin-Plate Toy Train • Germany • c1900 Not the slightest bit realistic; but completely lovely. The idea and spirit if the train is entirely comprehensible. Beautiful!

]]> 0 6421afc86c10fb4172288bca7953412a Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3226 Fri, 07 Jun 2024 10:12:56 +0000 I Live on Trains • Guardian • 2024

]]> 0 570868cfd6d56966de0b780ab60af6aa Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3224 Sun, 21 Apr 2024 14:11:48 +0000 Railway + Cinema • Yasujirō Ozu • Japan • 20C The Japanese film director, Yasujirō Ozu had a long and distinguished career in cinema. Many of his films play-out against a […]

]]> 0 3f566f04b56347c85824e6cad8540960 Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3222 Sat, 16 Mar 2024 16:59:53 +0000 I found this image in an old book about the History of the Southern Railway (1936).

]]> 0 7bce0b517b2121b6c21bdb332e540c4d Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3220 Sat, 03 Feb 2024 16:47:10 +0000 The greatest railroad photo-play ever made….

The Union Pacific route between Chicago and San Francisco

]]> 0 1e643e9b251f18e2eeea3b6256746c3a Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3218 Wed, 08 Nov 2023 12:00:32 +0000

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]]> 0 8972a297fe1d969ca6cd36a92af4d791 Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3214 Sun, 22 Oct 2023 10:09:19 +0000

]]> 0 4bdf638eb89637eba560332c3764d472 Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3212 Sat, 07 Oct 2023 14:19:12 +0000

]]> 0 1862aac5816f2535f6a4a960c12f2817 Paul Rennie wrote a new post on the site BAGDContext CSM https://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=3209 Sat, 07 Oct 2023 14:16:07 +0000 This is a lovely model of the rural railway in Washington state (Twin Peaks), and with terrific trackside timber buildings and wonderful autumn trees…and a top logo on the freight.

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