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To mark #InternationalCivilAviationDay, let's just remind ourselves of this shadiest of shade throwing posters from BR in the '80s... 😮‍💨

We can all agree that trains are better than planes, right?

📸 'How to Improve a Plane', BR poster, 1985

British Rail throwing shade at the airline industry back in '85!

📷 'How to Improve a Plane', British Rail poster, 1985.

It's #WorldBeeDay! 🐝

The creation of the railway network changed Britain's landscape, but also brought with it with new habitats for a wide variety of plants and animals.

Read all about it, in our blog on The Green Corridor: https://t.co/S41OEtyN8k

There is spring cleaning and then there is SPRING CLEANING

🎨 St Pancras Cleaning Yard by Cliff Rowe, 1940.

Hauling loads up steep slopes was difficult for locomotives with smooth wheels.

In the early 19th century engineers wrestled with the problem to stop them slipping beneath their own weight.

It's #InternationalDogDay!

(it was either this great poster, or Laddie https://t.co/CdcA7nxFTA 🐕‍🦺)

🎨 London & North Eastern Railway poster promoting rail travel to the east coast of England. Artwork by Tom Purvis.

Cigarette card showing Flying Scotsman, hauled by A4 Pacific Dominion of New Zealand.

✨Maglevs!✨

Maglevs work using magnetic levitation. Instead of travelling on wheels on a track, the car hovers above a metal track and is propelled by magnets.

Happy birthday to Tom Purvis, born this day in 1888.

For over 20 years he produced artwork for some of LNER's most iconic advertising.

Explore more of his work - and get your own copies - in our poster and print shop:

https://t.co/3yr2Biqoed

[4/7] Victoria Davidson - born Lilli Ursula Barbara Commichau - designed posters for London Transport between 1959-1962, like this charming cockerel.

Born in Munich, she left in 1935 with her Jewish partner and became a British Citizen.

Photograph and poster from @LTMuseum