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Special Delivery
"I was nearly mobbed by autograph hunters and other fans at Charing Cross statio...
Pauli Effect
It was a standing joke among Wolfgang Pauli's colleagues that the famed theoreti...
Large Party
President William Howard Taft once found himself stranded at a small country rai...
British Rail
In July 1978, Sir Peter Parker set off for a meeting with Cumbria County Council...
Texas Eagle
In 1996, Al Gore received a letter from a Dallas couple complaining about the el...
Amtrak Sunset (long)
While researching an article on the so-called "land-cruise business" in 2002, Jo...
Good Sport
One day Winston Churchill's wife and Edward Marsh (his private secretary) found ...
Phlubin' Philbin?
Regis Philbin once succumbed to a curious case of "corpsing" (a form of hysteria...
Conan O'Brien: Meeting Sulu
Conan O'Brien once had occasion to meet one of his idols: George Takei (Lt. Hika...
Existential Crisis?
When an express train to London made an unscheduled stop at Reading station, Cyr...
Saint George?
Rehearsals for the American premiere of Shaw's Saint Joan went swimmingly...
Idiot Express
French president Paul Deschanel was not noted for his athletic prowess. While tr...
Ambi-valence?
By the age of twelve, Thomas Edison had a job on the Grand Trunk Railway selling...
Welcome to Russia
"While Arthur Ransome, now a favourite children's author, but then a corresponde...
Arrival of Cinema
In 1895, Auguste Lumiere and his brother Louis made cinematic history by giving ...
Model Citizen?
On his eighty-ninth birthday, the French conductor Pierre Monteux was interviewe...
Top Billing?
George Gershwin was not noted for his modesty. His friend and fellow pianist Osc...
Jack All? (long)
"'Books do furnish a room' - Anthony Powell, adapting an interior-design thought...
Royal Pain?
Slated for a performance in Zurich, Slezak left his home in Vienna one day havin...
Rail Pass
Although the special rail passes which Henry Watterson and other American journa...
TRAIN ROBBERY!
On January 31, 1874, Jesse James and his gang robbed the St. Louis-Texas express...
De Havilland & Sons
"I had difficulty in commumcating my enthusiasm for flying to my children," Sir ...
Olivier's Beef
Sir Laurence Olivier once held a press conference in London to complain about th...
Love Train?
One day Teddy Roosevelt went to meet his wife's train - and was astonished to se...
George Bernard Shaw: Deligh...
While traveling by train one day, George Bernard Shaw found himself sharing a co...
Chertkov
Among Leo Tolstoy's disciples was a certain wealthy aristocrat named Chertkov. T...
Mick Rix: Hash Job?
In 2000, Mick Rix, the leader of the union representing British train engineers,...
Enormous Moron?
One day in 1829, during his tenure as governor of New York, Martin Van Buren wro...
Berra Logic
Yogi Berra was famed for his verbal bloopers and nonsensical logic.
"I knew I w...
Ford Bronko?
Even among his fellow players, Bronko Nagurski was noted for his incredible stre...
Poor Carnegie
Toward the end of his life, Andrew Carnegie, one of the wealthiest Americans in ...
Lady Bingham: Stranger on a...
The Edwardian society figure Lady Bingham once found herself being stared at by ...
Class Act
"To identify himself with the masses of the poor, Gandhi would insist on traveli...
Chesterton Lost
The famously absent-minded G. K. Chesterton missed so many trains that much of h...
Eli Wallach & Sergio Leone:...
Eli Wallach was nearly killed during the filming of the train scene in Sergio Le...
4:58
The Australian pianist Percy Grainger once performed for a women's club matinee ...
Silly Sigmund
Sigmund Freud had to be accompanied by someone else on most of his trips. Why? H...
Lamminkainen
Sir Thomas Beecham once found himself conducting a rehearsal of Sibelius's ...
For N.H. Briant
"In Brendan Behan's Dublin flat I saw his latest piece of prose," Robert Pitman ...
Donabate Sunset
"George Moore, when he and I were crossing the railway viaduct at Donabate, was ...
Dionysius Lardner: The Prof...
"In the 1830s, Irish-born Dionysius Lardner, a professor of natural philosophy a...
Sigmund Fraud?
Sigmund Freud was not without his critics, among them Dr. Sophie Freud, SigmundŽ...
Director in Training
Legendary director John Ford was initially ambivalent about his decision to foll...
Chairman Rattled
"Lord Ashford, Chairman of the London Passenger Transport Board [known as London...
William Huskisson: When in ...
"William Huskisson was a popular member of Parliament who, on September 15, 1830...
Rhapsody in Blue
"George Gershwin was on a train journey for the premiere of ...
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