Society generally looks patronisingly or with benevolence upon railway fans, as if they were children. In reality, they are serious people, with very diverse preoccupations, drawn around a common passion: trains and railroads. We all had the opportunity of noticing this during a conference which took place between September 12th and 14th, 2019 in Cluj, Romania, hosted by Babes-Bolyai University and the Faculty of History and Philosophy. Entitled „The Railway Journey from the 19th to the 21st Centuries. A Cultural History of Railway Transport and Mobility”, it was the first of its kind ever to be held in Romania. The organisers were Babes-Bolyai University through the Faculty of History and Philosophy, the “George Baritiu” Institute of History within the Romanian Academy, the Society for Historical Sciences in Romania and the International Association for Railway History. Thirty-six historians, literary scholars, researchers and non-academic presenters took part. We observed the
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