 Here comes the train. A really nice exhibition of old British Railway Posters. Great stuff."It is hardly surprising that the "Golden Age" of British railway posters coincided with the quarter-century following the amalgamation in 1923 of almost all of the numerous small independent companies into what came to be known as the "Big Four"railways: the Great Western (GWR); the London, Midland, and Scottish (LMS); the London and North East (LNER); and the Southern (SR). The end of the Great War saw Britain with a public eager to travel - and possessing a well-developed taste for the poster as a medium of advertising. In the latter case the war itself provided continuity for initiatives that began in peacetime, for the recruiting and saving and funding campaigns needed to vanquish the Hun were waged largely on the hoardings. Now how on Earth is she going to see someone in Aberystwyth when that person is apparently standing on the platform somewhere at King's Cross
? The guy hasn't even got onto the train yet! Perhaps some old-fashioned 'beaming device'? Who knows.
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Resign, Resign, Resign. Please. Tony, go. 
