South Eastern and Chatham Railway Poster and Ad Collection: The South Eastern and Chatham Railway Companies Joint Management Committee (SE&CRCJMC),known as the South Eastern and Chatham Railway (SE&CR), was a working union of two neighbouring rival railways, the South Eastern Railway (SER) and London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LC&DR), which operated between London and south-east England. (Wikipedia)
South Eastern and Chatham Railway Poster and Ad Collection:
1920’s Posters and Ads:
1920 England. South Eastern & Chatham Railway
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Orient Express Poster and Ad Collection: The Orient Express was a long-distance passenger luxury train service created in 1883 by the Belgian company Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL) that operated until 2009. The train traveled the length of continental Europe, with terminal stations in Paris in the northwest and Istanbul in the southeast, and branches extending service to Athens, Brussels, and London. (Wikipedia)
Orient Express Poster and Ad Collection:
1920’s Posters and Ads:
1927 Simplon Orient Express. Grande Bretagne. France. Suisse. Italia …
LMS Poster and Ad Collection: The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS[a]) was a British railway company. It was formed on 1 January 1923 under the Railways Act 1921, which required the grouping of over 120 separate railways into four. The companies merged into the LMS included the London and North Western Railway, the Midland Railway, the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (which had previously merged with the London and North Western Railway on 1 January 1922), several Scottish railway companies (including the Caledonian Railway), and numerous other, smaller ventures. (Wikipedia)
LMS Poster and Ad Collection:
1920’s Posters and Ads:
1925 Shrewsbury, An Historic & Picturesque Town. LMS
1927 The West Coast is the Best Coast. ‘The Warmer Side of Britain’ LMS
1929 Travel via LMS
1930’s Posters and Ads:
1932 The Line Of Beauty. LMS
1934 The way to Britain’s beauty. Penny-a-mile ‘Summer’ Tickets by LMS
1935 The Pipers Of The Black Watch. Scotland. LNER LMS
1936 Here comes The Mail. LMS
1936 The Continent. G.W. LMS LNE & Southern Railways
1937 The Coronation Scot. London Midland & Scottish Railway
Western Pacific Railroad Poster and Ad Collection: The Western Pacific Railroad (reporting mark WP) was a Class I railroad in the United States. It was formed in 1903 as an attempt to break the near-monopoly the Southern Pacific Railroad had on rail service into northern California. WP’s Feather River Route directly competed with SP’s portion of the Overland Route for rail traffic between Salt Lake City/Ogden, Utah and Oakland, California for nearly 80 years. In 1983 the Western Pacific was acquired by the Union Pacific Railroad. The Western Pacific was one of the original operators of the California Zephyr. (Wikipedia)
Western Pacific Railroad Poster and Ad Collection:
1940’s Posters and Ads:
1949 Scenic Way To California Take The Vista-Dome California Zephyr. Burlington – Rio Grande – Western Pacific
1949 The California Zephyr, America’s Newest, Most Beautiful Train! Featuring Vista-Dome Cars. Burlington – Rio Grande – Western Pacific
1950’s Posters and Ads:
1955 Travel to California aboard the train chosen to star in ‘Cinerama Holiday’! Western Pacific
1955 Reno TV Distributor hits Jackpot! (Thanks to Western Pacific’s Personal Service!)
1957 Even our new car ferry is streamlined! Western Pacific
1957 The Mystery of The Missing Pallet. Western Pacific
1957 You’ll see hundreds of miles of scenery like this aboard the Vista-Dome California Zephyr. Western Pacific
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Rio Grande Poster and Ad Collection: The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (reporting mark DRGW), often shortened to Rio Grande, D&RG or D&RGW, formerly the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, was an American Class I railroad company. The railroad started as a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge line running south from Denver, Colorado, in 1870. It served mainly as a transcontinental bridge line between Denver and Salt Lake City, Utah. The Rio Grande was also a major origin of coal and mineral traffic. (Wikipedia)
Rio Grande Poster and Ad Collection:
1940’s Posters and Ads:
1949 Scenic Way To California Take The Vista-Dome California Zephyr. Burlington – Rio Grande – Western Pacific
1949 The California Zephyr, America’s Newest, Most Beautiful Train! Featuring Vista-Dome Cars. Burlington – Rio Grande – Western Pacific
Norfolk and Western Railway Poster and Ad Collection: The Norfolk and Western Railway (reporting mark NW), commonly called the N&W, was a US class I railroad, formed by more than 200 railroad mergers between 1838 and 1982. It was headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia, for most of its existence. Its motto was “Precision Transportation”; it had a variety of nicknames, including “King Coal” and “British Railway of America”. In 1986, N&W merged with Southern Railway to form today’s Norfolk Southern Railway. (Wikipedia)
Norfolk and Western Railway Poster and Ad Collection:
1940’s Posters and Ads:
1948 Better Plant Locations. Land of Plenty. Norfolk and Western Railway
1960’s Posters and Ads:
1960 Looking just one way… forward! N&W. Norfolk & Western Railway
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GWR Poster and Ad Collection: The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran its first trains in 1838 with the initial route completed between London and Bristol in 1841 (Wikipedia)
GWR Poster and Ad Collection:
1920’s Posters and Ads:
1923 Cornwall. Great Western Railway. GWR
1930’s Posters and Ads:
1930 Stay At Dartmouth. Devon’s Beauty Spot. G.W.R.
Southern Poster and Ad Collection: The Southern Railway (SR), sometimes shortened to ‘Southern’, was a British railway company established in the 1923 Grouping. It linked London with the Channel ports, South West England, South coast resorts and Kent. The railway was formed by the amalgamation of several smaller railway companies, the largest of which were the London & South Western Railway (LSWR), the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LBSC) and the South Eastern and Chatham Railway (SECR). The construction of what was to become the Southern Railway began in 1838 with the opening of the London and Southampton Railway, which was renamed the London & South Western Railway. (Wikipedia)
Southern Poster and Ad Collection:
1920’s Poster and Ad:
1929 Eastbourne. Southern Railway
1929 South For Winter Sunshine. SR
1930’s Poster and Ad:
1930 There Is Sunshine In The South. Southern Railway
1933 Sussex by the Sea for Happy Holidays. Southern Railway
1936 Im Taking An Early Holiday Cos I Know Summer Comes Soonest in The South. Southern Railway
1936 Paris. Southern Railway
1936 The Continent. G.W. LMS LNE & Southern Railways
1938 Brighton and Hove, Southern Railway
1939 ‘Sunset over Guernsey’ Channel Islands Holidays via Southampton or Weymouth (GWR) Southern Railway
1940’s Poster and Ad:
1947 The Devon Belle. Southern Railway & Pullman Car Company
LNER Poster and Ad Collection: The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second largest (after LMS) of the “Big Four” railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain. It operated from 1 January 1923 until nationalisation on 1 January 1948. At that time, it was divided into the new British Railways’ Eastern Region, North Eastern Region, and partially the Scottish Region. (Wikipedia)
LNER Poster and Ad Collection:
1920’s Posters and Ads:
1928 The Flying Scotsman. King’s Cross London and Edinburgh (Waverley). LNER
1928 Done On The LNER. Over Two Hundred Restaurant Cars and Twenty-Two Hotels
1929 The Yorkshire Coast. ‘The Holiday Handbook’ LNER
1929 Whitley Bay. LNER
1929 Hull. Britain’s Cheapest Port. LNER
1930’s Posters and Ads:
1930 Border Country. LNER
1930 Camping Coaches in England and Scotland. LNER
1930’s An East Coast Tonic. LNER
1931 East Coast Joys. LNER
1932 Lowestoft. LNER
1932 Silloth on The Solway. LNER
1935 Mablethorpe & Sutton-On-Sea. The Children’s Paradise. LNER
1935 The Pipers Of The Black Watch. Scotland. LNER LMS
1936 The Continent. G.W. LMS LNE & Southern Railways
1936 Harwich. The Gateway To The Continent
1936 On Either Side. London & North Eastern Railway
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Poster and Ad Collection: The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (reporting marks B&O, BO) was one of the oldest railroads in the United States and the first common carrier railroad. It came into being mostly because the city of Baltimore wanted to compete with the newly constructed Erie Canal (which served New York City) and another canal being proposed by Pennsylvania, which would have connected Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. (Wikipedia)
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Poster and Ad Collection:
1930’s Posters and Ads:
1931 Announcing…. first Air-Conditioned Train in Railroad History. Baltimore & Ohio
1940’s Posters and Ads:
1949 A Happy Holiday Season From The Men And Women Of The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
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