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Tonight I’ll be escaping London by train to Snowdonia for Easter, like millions of others have done for generations. So, today's vintage travel poster is this by Charles H Baker for the London, Midland & Scottish Railway - 1923. [@railwaymuseum/ @sciencemuseum group collection]
Tonight’s re-reading is the very fine DUNROAMIN: “the Suburban Semi and its Enemies” by Paul Oliver, Ian Davis and Ian Bentley. Plot summary: delightful. You’d like it.
Railways as Art:
Edward Bawden's linocut "Branch Line Diesel (Braintree Station)" c.1961. A bewhiskered DMU thrums efficiently in Essex sun.
London's Hidden Tunnels Revealed In Amazing Cutaways (by me!)
for @Londonist. Inc a never-before published drawing
https://t.co/KRt82LzOCo
But imagine living in Renzo Picasso's 1929 proposed New York
where highways stack up in multiple between buildings
A very splendid Piccadilly Circus Tube Station 3D cutaway diagram by Renzo Picasso, 1929
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https://t.co/ceeejWarUU
Some really good "Unbuilt London" stuff from @RIBA_London:
"London as it might have been"
https://t.co/yWxhO8H5m5
@ollywainwright Something of the Rowland Emett Battersea Festival Gardens about it... (I mean that in a good way)
Barbican Estate site immediately before construction began in 1959
(Painting by Harold Hussey,1962.@MuseumofLondon)