A splendid scene – hikers high above a Continental river gorge (my money is on the Rhine!) and what a lure for 1937 travellers who wanted to get away for an ‘inexpensive and adventurous holiday with the aid of Youth Hostels’. This booklet, typical of the high quality output of Read More →
A typically bold item of publicity from the London & North Eastern Railway – the cover of a 1938 booklet describing the company’s express freight services – so a pun here on ‘expressing’ itself and the speed of services! In Gill Sans, and showing loco 4771 – the only V2 Read More →
One of a annual series of travel publicity booklets issued by the LNER this, the 1939 London booklet, would turn out effectively to be the last in a long line. When, later in 1939, WW2 broke out such publicity ceased and holiday travel such as promoted by this booklet was Read More →
A VERY posed photo showing what was on offer at one of the LNER’s Camping Coaches – old railway coaches converted to holiday accomodation and stabled at a wayside halt or siding. It does rather beg a caption competition – "One step closer Dorethy and I’ll clip you one with Read More →
The UK’s mainline railways were at one time major port and harbour owners and in competition they promoted their facilities by way of such lavish booklets as seen here – the LNER’s 1939 booklet for the neighbouring ports of Grimsby and Immingham. Grimsby is by far the older (the town Read More →
No.17 in the ‘annual publications list’ of the LNER is the Camping Holidays booklet – and seen here with a wonderfully atmospheric cover illustration by Tom Purvis, one of the LNER’s excellent stable of artists and designers. The company were, of the Big Four railways between the two wars, probably Read More →
The London & North Eastern Railway’s 1939 book describing the facilities at the Port of Hull, one of the major East Coast ports and one of several that the Railway owned. The various main line railways produced superb and detailed guides to docks and ports – and one suspects that Read More →
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