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Railways

The technology that standardised time.

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Musée d'Orsay

A railway station turned temple to 19th-century French painting — brilliant in focus, rigid in boundary.
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March of the Dungarees

Recruitment as railway pageant: a march that gathered men like freight but couldn’t carry the weight of Gallipoli.

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