The Railway Series

Changing the Tune

The evolution of the theme tunes of popular British children’s television programmes offers a useful prism for looking through at processes of…

Sep 7 •

Duck and the Diesel Engine (1958)

The rivalry between the two characters at the heart of this book encapsulated the contest between competing versions of the British railway system’s…

Nov 16, 2024 •

The Three Railway Engines (1945)

The first book in the Reverend Awdry’s Railway Series sketched out a world of living engines, existing in relation to humans and rolling stock, governed…

Jul 20, 2024 •

Troublesome Engines (1950)

The Rev. W. Awdry’s Troublesome Engines centred on a Christianised notion of moral economy, in which industrial action was pitted against unitary…

Dec 17, 2023 •

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