Trainspotters

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railfan
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1105207/The-train-spotters-treated-like-terrorists.html

René Clement's La Bataille du Rail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXcghAUcW64

Frankenheimer's The Train

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Train_(1964_film)

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/famouspeople/isambard_kingdom_brunel/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/brunel_kingdom_isambard.shtml
http://www.theschoolrun.com/homework-help/isambard-kingdom-brunel

Richard Trevithick

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Trevithick

Buster Keaton's The General

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilPk-SCHv30

Hobos during the Great Depression

> What is a hobo?
> Great Depression
> Timeline of the Great Depression
> Riding the rails
> Tales from the Rails
> Boxcar boys and girls
> Great Depression Teenagers
> Riding the rails (YouTube)
> Riding the Rails transcripts
> Railroad maps
> John Lee Hooker: Hobo Blues
> Hobo songs
> Hobo culture
> Boxcar Bertha
> Hobo ghost stories

Songs about trains

http://harpers.org/blog/2014/06/the-twenty-three-best-train-songs-ever-written-maybe/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_train_songs

The Railway Children

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Railway_Children

Thomas the Tank Engine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_the_Tank_Engine

Britten and Auden: Night Mail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGc7-SbHJs0
https://silverbirchpress.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/the-night-mail-poem-by-w-h-auden/
http://www.gradesaver.com/w-h-auden-poems/study-guide/summary-night-mail

Steve Reich: Different Trains

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E4Bjt_zVJc
http://musicavaleri.free.fr/html/fichiers_hda/guerre.html

Great British train journeys

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_British_Railway_Journeys

Steam trains

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/steamtrains/

George Stephenson

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/famouspeople/george_stephenson/
http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/people/BG.0073/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/animations/rocket/index_embed.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/stephenson_george.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/launch_ani_rocket.shtml

History

http://www.trainhistory.net/
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/britain-1700-to-1900/transport-1750-to-1900/trains-1830-to-1900/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_rail_transport
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/shp/britishsociety/railwaysrev1.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/standard/history/1830_1930/coming_of_railways/revision/1/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/speed_01.shtml