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There is a very splendid new poster/ad for #TheAberdonian steam trains this summer - by @smillership - with @60163_Tornado and the Forth Bridge. Absolutely recalls the style of midcentury travel posters. You may also recall his work on @Dorothy_UK's "lost destination" posters
Four historic cars that might (or not) help people drive in floods:
1. The Penguin, Canada, 1963
2. The Quandt Group Amphicar of 1961
3. Mr Clive Talbot of Chiswick's 1959 Thames car
4. And if things get really bad, a Sea Car of the Land & Sea Car Company of Cleethorpes Ltd, 1923
Shipwright’s Arms, Tooley Street SE1. Right by London Bridge station. Splendid HUGE 1884 tiled mural of Thames shipwrights working and surrounding tiles extant by one door - by Charles Evans & Co (“Artists in stained glass tiled and mosaics”). Grade II Listed by @HistoricEngland
@presentcorrect yeaah! Train headboards are a thing all over. Here are a couple of UK ones. All sorts of styles...
I don’t think I’ve ever seen the North Sea look as beautiful as I have just now, speeding along the cliffs on @LNER. #TravelByTrain.
Today’s the 4th & final day of #InterCity125 (it feels about Day 12)!Before the madness begins, thanks to everyone aboard & on stations for being ace & fun on this epic charity trip. From @RAIL, @LNER @railwaymuseum @125Group crew & more, & all the folk I’ve chatted to. Cheers!👍
I can’t stop thinking about this #travelbytrain sea view yesterday as we swooshed around the Northumberland clifftops.
Tonight @markovenden and @TubeMapCentral launched their beautiful new book - "Airline Maps: A Century of Art and Design". It's published by Penguin, and I think that you might enjoy it. More on it here: https://t.co/n01rIZJE33
This is literally beneath the feet of millions of Londoners and visitors and so few must know it is there. I hope a productive, sustainable way forward for the structure’s future can be found. More info & open dates for @cpsubway: https://t.co/53dYhQ9zuj
Tonight I’ll be escaping London by train to Snowdonia for Easter, like millions of others have done for generations. So, today's vintage travel poster is this by Charles H Baker for the London, Midland & Scottish Railway - 1923. [@railwaymuseum/ @sciencemuseum group collection]