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Beta test a new Window Seater guide We are Window Seater, a new startup connecting making train travel more compelling and connecting travellers to the communities outside their window. We are working with Great Western Railways, the Community Rail Network and Innovate UK to produce new audio guides for 10 UK rail lines. And we’re […]
As the pandemic lockdown bites, we’ve created a virtual version of travelling with the Window Seater app. Watch the video, fly the Merthyr Line (thanks, Google Earth!) and experience our geolocated audio guide – a story of coal, steam and the making of the modern world . Like what you hear? This Welsh line is […]
In 1900 Sultan Abduhamid II announced to the world a unique project: Istanbul would be connected to the holy sanctuaries of Medina and Mecca by railway. The railroad construction began in Damascus, reaching Dar’a in 1901, Amman in 1903, and on to Medina in 1908, spanning some 1300km. Two years ago, in 2018, we came […]
We’re looking for more fascinating stories to better connect travellers to the world outside their window. If you know of any interesting stories in or near rail routes (especially in the UK, but we’d be interested in further afield too) this is your chance to bring them to a wider public. History, culture, geology, politics, […]
As the pandemic bites, we’ve launched a WhatsApp version of our Death Railway trip. Rather than downloading the app and riding the train for several hours (which you, understandably, might not want to do right now), you can now click a button and have the content sent to your phone… at home, in the car, […]
We’re launching a new app and service for travelling in Wales. And our first route is Cardiff to Merthyr Tydfil. If you’d like to get early access, help test the app and input on its content, we’d love to hear from you! Just fill out the form below and we’ll send you a link to […]
The Death Railway, or the Thai-Burma Railway, is a train made infamous by a horrific wartime atrocity upon prisoners of war, and then famous by a brilliant (albeit semi-fictional) book and movie – The Bridge on the River Kwai. The train still operates as a regular Thailand regional train, and also for tourists and survivors […]
I found it on Stuart’s bookshelf: John Berger’s ‘Ways of Seeing’. A strange find. A graphic designer, my brother was never academic or interested in essays. Yet there it was, and its contents promised serious thinking. Pages filled with talk of compositional unity. Black and white photos of paintings. Subjects staring at the viewer whilst […]
IMPORTANT: This post was last updated 1 June 2018. Always check how to buy tickets before you travel. How to take the Death Railway (Thai-Burma Railway) Regular scheduled trains still run from Bangkok along the Thai-Burma Railway up to Nam Tok, via Kanchanaburi (home of the Bridge on the River Kwai), and Nakhon Pathom). It […]
Travelling north by train from Bangkok? Then we recommend the Northern Line Window Seater trip. Want a deeper dive in your time? Then read on for a tale of rice & revolt! The City of Bangkok is a heaving beast that is growing and spilling into the countryside. So if you’re taking the Northern Line […]
