travel – The Long Path

Off the Rails: Interrail at the Movies

Over the past three years I have conducted oral history interviews with more than fifty people from across the UK about their experiences of Interrailing in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s. Along the way I also discovered three contrasting films which featured this late-twentieth-century youth travel phenomenon. Released in 1995, Aditya Chopra’s ‘Dilwale Dulhania LeContinue reading “Off the Rails: Interrail at the Movies”

Interrail in the museum and at the archives

Have you ever had an unexpected sensory experience which immediately transported you back several decades? This happened to me last summer while I was exploring ‘The Compartment of Dreams’ exhibition at the Danish Railway Museum in Odense. Housed in a former engine shed, the exhibition revolves around two imposing but contrasting railway carriages. One isContinue reading “Interrail in the museum and at the archives”