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Title: Railway posters for the 21st Century Post by: JayMac on July 31, 2018, 19:12:11 The Big Four were well known for producing advertising posters extolling the virtues of various destinations on their networks. GWR favoured idyllic scenes of country and coast. Southern produced posters in an Art Deco style. Both LMS & LNER were known for featuring their locomotives and promoting the speed and comfort of their journeys to Scotland.
An artist has re-imagined the 'destination' style railway poster for the 21st century. https://bit.ly/2AoHfSi My particular favourites are Morecombe and Exmouth. Morecombe: https://bit.ly/2KecaQW Exmouth: https://bit.ly/2mYhZcb Title: Re: Railway posters for the 21st Century Post by: TaplowGreen on July 31, 2018, 21:45:52 Do any feature a certain group of 4 young people & their canine friend? I've often thought they'd be suitable candidates for railway advertising but I can't see it ever happening.
Title: Re: Railway posters for the 21st Century Post by: JayMac on July 31, 2018, 22:09:36 Do any feature a certain group of 4 young people & their canine friend? I've often thought they'd be suitable candidates for railway advertising but I can't see it ever happening. Five (okay six) Go Mad in Blackpool? (https://image.ibb.co/k0Eryz/rps20180731_220705.jpg) Title: Re: Railway posters for the 21st Century Post by: eightonedee on July 31, 2018, 22:20:41 This "Five go to" theme could be developed. Let's make it relevant to today's GWR. Some suggestions-
"Five Stay at Home on Sunday" "Five Get Stranded at Westbury (with 25 others)" "Five Get Dumped in middle of nowhere by Bus Replacement" "Five Go Back to Trains of the 1980s" (get this one ready for the bi-modes if and when they arrive) Title: Re: Railway posters for the 21st Century Post by: Trowres on July 31, 2018, 23:36:59 Here's one highly-relevant poster that I'm applying in practice tomorrow:
http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/REC_Necessary.pdf (http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/REC_Necessary.pdf) Title: Re: Railway posters for the 21st Century Post by: Clan Line on August 01, 2018, 13:31:04 This "Five go to" theme could be developed. Let's make it relevant to today's GWR. "Five abreast in a 166"................. Title: Re: Railway posters for the 21st Century Post by: broadgage on August 01, 2018, 15:16:42 The Big Four were well known for producing advertising posters extolling the virtues of various destinations on their networks. GWR favoured idyllic scenes of country and coast. Southern produced posters in an Art Deco style. Both LMS & LNER were known for featuring their locomotives and promoting the speed and comfort of their journeys to Scotland. An artist has re-imagined the 'destination' style railway poster for the 21st century. https://bit.ly/2AoHfSi My particular favourites are Morecombe and Exmouth. Morecombe: https://bit.ly/2KecaQW Exmouth: https://bit.ly/2mYhZcb I don't get the Redcar one, what is on the beach ? a dead whale ? The Bournemouth poster rather reminds me of Minehead, the prevalence of mobility scooters, the penultimate destination is very apt, and the hill in the distance is very similar to the view along the seafront from the station towards the lifeboat house. Title: Re: Railway posters for the 21st Century Post by: patch38 on August 01, 2018, 15:28:50 Yes - a beached whale from a while ago - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-13601654 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-13601654)
That and the steelworks add up to dystopia, I guess. My mum always recommended Milk of Magnesia for dystopia. At least, I think that's what she said. ;D This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |