Railway Cultures
11th October 2018“Railways take people to work, they take people on holiday and they connect people with their loved ones. They may seem like just another mode of transportation, but they actually contain stories that illustrate life and culture in modern day Britain”
This is your train manager speaking… by Katherine M. Rogers
5th February 2019Our last announcement Appears to have caused some confusion. We are sorry that we cannot walk Your dogs along the platform, even The claustrophobic poodle in coach C. That bit the ticket inspector. To the young lady in seat 12B We do not have a needle To pull your splinter out. We think It…
Tracking by Nicky Hallett
5th February 2019The coming of the railways to my grandfather’s hunting country brought carnage to the animals hounds were forever being squashed and horses badly damaged shunted sideways by cow-catchers’ savage blades that shot hot metal deep Into their shoulders, a leg snapped neatly at the pastern of another fetlock floundered caught by panic in the slippery…
Sheffield Train Station Special – Laura Page
5th February 2019The photographs taken by Laura Page for the Railway Cultures project, were shown for a temporary period at Sheffield Train Station as a pop up exhibition. A highly successful exhibition, with an astounding footfall. We aim to take this pop up exhibition further and tour the feature in more stations.
Laura Page
17th December 2018What was your project about? I worked with Dr Romdenh Romluc who does a lot of fascinating work around perception. We looked at how the space in a train is shaped to accommodate certain activities and actions and how the behaviours that shape human environments, like the train, include those that are dictated by…
Simon Bill
17th December 2018What was your project about? I was asked to respond to the Museum’s collection in two ways, both as a visual artist and as a writer. As a painter my response took the form of a work in which the essentials of the coachwork painting on the carriage used by Edward VII were distilled –…
Passenger by Pete Green
17th December 2018If there’s a patron saint of passengers, I’m praying now, temple pressed white to the pane, lids tight against the pastured squares, slowed squadrons of cumulus, church spires, moving water. None of this is mine, infrastructure of an age when some feared suffocation if folk were shifted faster than a trot and to accept the…
Peter Bartle – Railway Signalman and Artist
17th December 2018As part of an ongoing project for Railway Cultures the University of Sheffield collaborated with long term partners DLA Piper to hold an exhibition of Peter Bartle’s work. Peter Bartle is an outstanding example of Worker Art. He encapsulates the hidden culture of art and railways and their role to individuals in society, how it…