railwaypublicity
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A booklet issued by the LNER to tempt travellers and partially by showing all the various booklets and leaflets they issued to drum up the all important leisure traffic. The cover shows the early version of the LNER logo that woudl soon be redesigned into more modern forms by the use of Gill typefaces. It…
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A booklet issued by the LNER to tempt travellers and partially by showing all the various booklets and leaflets they issued to drum up the all important leisure traffic. The cover shows the early version of the LNER logo that woudl soon be redesigned into more modern forms by the use of Gill typefaces. It…
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A booklet issued by the LNER to tempt travellers and partially by showing all the various booklets and leaflets they issued to drum up the all important leisure traffic. The cover shows the early version of the LNER logo that woudl soon be redesigned into more modern forms by the use of Gill typefaces. It…
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A booklet issued by the LNER to tempt travellers and partially by showing all the various booklets and leaflets they issued to drum up the all important leisure traffic. The cover shows the early version of the LNER logo that woudl soon be redesigned into more modern forms by the use of Gill typefaces. It…
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A booklet issued by the LNER to tempt travellers and partially by showing all the various booklets and leaflets they issued to drum up the all important leisure traffic. The cover shows the early version of the LNER logo that woudl soon be redesigned into more modern forms by the use of Gill typefaces. It…
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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 LNER publicity, promotes travel across…
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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 class built and named Green…
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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 actively discouraged. The LNER had…
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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 rare as their 1935 ‘Thrice…
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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 time the largest US railroad…
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