railwaypublicity
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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 the designer Raymond Loewy –…
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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 monoplane of the same name…
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A colourful view of the famous Brig O’ Doon and Burns Memorial at Alloway in Ayrshire, Scotland and an attempt by one of the UK’s ‘Big Four’ railways to lure holiday makers north of the border. One of the annual ‘Scotland for the Holidays’ series, the quality of both artwork and printing was seen as…
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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 this frying pan! I say,…
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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 being one of the earliest…
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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 the most adventurous when it…
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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 they were very useful to…
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What a shame no artist or designer is shown on this 1958 BR leaflet for changes to the Manchester – Altrincham line services that, as part of the 25kv electrification of services out of Manchester London Road (now Piccadilly) were curtailed to Oxford Road station. This was to allow the existing 1500v DC electrification that…
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