London and Birmingham
[London]: Philip Reid Designer & Printer
Not dated, but obviously very early, perhaps before 1923
Restaurant Car Services
London: The Dangerfield Printing Co., Ltd.
Not dated, but obviously very early, perhaps before 1923
I'll see you at Aberystwyth
London, Dunstable & Watford: Waterlow & Sons Ltd.
George Stephenson
London: Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Ltd.
Wages of Signalmen
York: Ben Johnson & Co., Ltd.
Up to Scotland from King's Cross
London: Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Ltd.
The Forth Bridge
Frank Henry Mason, 1876-1935
London: The Dangerfield Printing Co., Ltd.
Scotland
London: The Dangerfield Printing Co., Ltd.
Theatre and Home
[London]: Lochend Printing Co., Ltd.
Passengers of the Past ("'Twas Pepys who said . . .")
London: The Dangerfield Printing Co., Ltd.
Part of a series of six posters featuring "passengers of the past."
'Twas Pepys who said "And so to bed"
"In comfort too" quoth he,
"Take half an ox and a pipe o' port
And sleep by L·N·E·"
Passengers of the Past ("The Doctor said to Boswell . . .")
London: The Dangerfield Printing Co., Ltd.
Part of a series of six posters featuring "passengers of the past."
The Doctor said to Boswell "Sir,
It seemeth plain to me
That the Obvious Route to Scotland
Is from King's Cross L·N·E·"
For Holidays I always go Southern
London, Dunstable & Watford: Waterlow & Sons Limited
Not dated, but not before 1925
The original photograph on which this poster is based was taken in 1924 by the father of Ronald Witt, the child gazing raptly up at the engineer, and the earliest poster use was in 1925; but the image was used repeatedly in various guises for a dozen years.
Electrification! (Progress Posters No. 1)
London, Dunstable & Watford: Waterlow & Sons Ltd.
This and the following three posters made up the Southern Railway's first poster series.
Cole and Durack, p. 64
Steam! (Progress Posters No. 2)
London: McCorquodale & Co., Limited
The Viaduct (Progress Posters No. 3)
London, Dunstable & Watford: Waterlow & Sons Ltd.
The illustration depicts the Ouse Viaduct, on the route between London and Brighton.
Cole and Durack, p. 65
Rolling-stock (Progress Posters No. 4)
London: McCorquodale & Co., Limited
The New 'Bournemouth Limited'
[London]: Sanders Phillips and Co., Ltd., The Baynard Press
To Edinburgh by Pullman
Septimus Edwin Scott, 1879 - ?
London: David Allen & Sons Ltd.
The Enginedriver ("Reliable Service" Series No. 1)
[London]: Printed by McCorquodale & Co., Ltd.
Past thousands of enchanting views
To northwards and to west,
Your job is just to sit and snooze,
The Driver does the resst!
EVOE.
The Signalman ("Reliable Service" Series No. 2)
[London]: Printed by McCorquodale & Co., Ltd.
The signalman controls the lever
That works the signals and the switches,
He never gets into a fever
Because he always knows which which is
EVOE.
The Guard ("Reliable Service" Series No. 3)
[London]: Printed by McCorquodale & Co., Ltd.
It never strikes him to complain
Of Auntie's parrot in the van,
He puts us in and starts the train,
He must be a good tempered man!
EVOE.
The Porter ("Reliable Service" Series No. 4)
[London]: Printed by McCorquodale & Co., Ltd.
How does the railway porter
Go dancing off like that,
With weights of which a quarter
Would nearly squash me flat?
EVOE.
Through Trucks to & from the Continent
Austin Cooper, 1890 - 1964
London: The Dangerfield Printing Co., Ltd.
