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Ocean Mails Express
In 1904 the Great Western Railway’s Ocean Mails Express was hauled at a then world record speed of 104mph, by the locomotive “City of Truro“. Here’s the design for a commemorative poster, using our...
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Great Western Memories
Showcasing Spillsbury and Portello The Great Wester Railway was England‘s most archetypal mainline railway, long redolent of a cosier bygone age. Bruswick green locomotives trimmed in brass and...
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Bettendorff, a Popular Success
Bettendorff has been a particular success story amongst our recent releases so we thought we’d show another example or so of the typeface in use. Here is an imagined 1930s cover for th Railway...
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Wonderfully Inspirational…
Seen today on Vintage Me Oh My! A collection of classic design as embodied in traditional hotel luggage labels. This example below originates with Britain’s London and North Western Railway and...
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Wonderfully Inspirational!
We’re sure there’s inspiration for two typeface families in this wonderful vintage London and North Western Railway Luggage label: This cones from the wonderful ‘Vintage Me Oh My Blog’ where we’ve been...
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Worth Valley Steam Gala
We recently happened across the advertisement below, for the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway’s steam gala, which is from the first to the third of March. This looks a fascinating event, and well...
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Another Week of Travelling… Part 7
In the 1920s most forms of movement used steam, and on the final one of our Blout specimen posters we see a splendid Ocean Liner and a rather elegant steam train. Let’s travel into the distance in the...
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Steaming with Spargo…
Railway themed posters which make use of the Spargo typeface family in their design… Filed under: Miscellany Tagged: design, locomotive, railway. poster, Spargo, steam, Trains and Railroads,...
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