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 →
Helen McKie illustrated many Southern Railway publications in the 1930s and indeed for other transport operators such as the ‘Eagle Steamers’ based in London. This booklet was issued by the railway in 1937 to commemorate the Coronation of King George VI and is a scarce survivor – although not as Read More →
Nothing like blowing your own trumpet on home territory! By 1926 The Pennsy was probably at the peak of its corporate achievements, at thats even before some of the later investments such as electrification of its north-eastern trunk line came into use. The Pennsylvania, founded in 1846, was at the Read More →
In my opinion, this is probably one of the finest pieces of industrial design ever built – the GG-1 Class electric locomotives of the Pennsy. As is often the case with ‘classics’ there’s been some debate about the precise designer of these fine locos as they are usually credited to Read More →
If anything can capture the great age of the American trains – and that of the great Pennsylvania Railroad the cover to this leaflet probably comes close. One of a series promoting the Railroad’s ‘named’ services, this cover has a slight modification int he form of the addition of the 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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