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2 years

1957 RENFE Spanish Railway system #travel brochure includes this fascinating diagrammatic take on #Spain #railway network. How its changed! #Espana #Travel #Map #railway #GraphicDesign @transitmap @MetropiaMaps @markovenden @NUL_Transport @seatsixtyone

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Today I am mostly staying in! The River Wharfe in Otley, West Yorkshire, really is wild water this afternoon. #Weather #WeatherUpdate #floods #flooding #Otley #yorkshire #yorkshiredales #wild #StormFranklin not yet! #storm

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No prizes for guessing where I am! To me, showing my age, it’s always the Post Office Tower! #London #postoffice #architecture #modernity #1960s

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The day's find continue - did I really slip these into my bag in 1970-something 😳 #BR Inter-City Sleepers bars of Palmolive #soap , the sort you'd have found in every train WC at the time! A rarer version of the logo! #trains #railway @_doublearrow @RAIL

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South Kentish Town station on the #London Underground, closed in 1924 never reopening after a power strike. In 1951 Betjeman gave it a ghost. Here's me arriving by train through the cab door of a 59-tube stock train, 1997. #underground #trains #Transport #history

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With today's news about the "Post Office Tower" aka the BT Tower (showing my age now!) I need little excuse to show this; the GPO's 1966 information handbook on this marvellous structure. @C20Society #architecture #London #BTTower

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A last look at South Kentish Town disused #station on #London #underground in 1997. To get out we flagged down a Northern line train by red Bardic lamp; here's one we missed! You see clearly that the 1906 tiles survive over the tunnel vault & that the platform has been removed.

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3 years

A chat y'day reminded me that one day we may again see one of #London Transport's oddest #buses as one survives in preservation - the Dartford Tunnel #cycle service that started in 1963 & lasted 2 years. #Transportation #ThrowbackThursday

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3 years

"Now that's what I call Overhead" - the LNER designed BR delivered M'cr-Sheffield-Wath electrification at Wombwell, article in Locomotive, April 1952. #railway #Engineering @WoodheadRoute

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4 years

The New Look of British Rail 1965 - Design Centre poster #graphicdesign #typography @C20thPosters @QuadRoyal @_doublearrow @hardwig @C20Society 👉

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The end of Weymouth Quay station as the lifting of the Tramway & demolition of the station continues. Signs long gone ... #railway #architecture #weymouth @_doublearrow @RAIL @Modern_Railways (pic M Walton)

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2 years

Sketches & designs showing the evolution of Paul Renner's Futura typeface, issued 1927 by Bauer, seen in a 1938 article on German type designs. #typography #typeface #lettering #design #GraphicDesign #Germany #Deutschland

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The start of Merseyrail - 1972 folder map & station index showing the local brand that has stood the test of time along with a central #Liverpool area that was to radically change after 1977. #merseyside #rail #Transport #TRAIN @merseyrail

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8 months

A found photograph (so apols to copyright holder) but ooh - a 'tube train' with a double arrow. @_doublearrow #Railways

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3 years

Not sure if I can buy into Staycations - Tanza isn’t exactly doing it for me. #grimart #photography #abandoned #derelict @GrimArtGroup

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Doomed lettering in Manchester dating from 1959. #MANCHESTER #lettering #architecture

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4 years

Speaking to pals in London Underground earlier who are feeling the strain - for all working in public transport, rail, tram & road who I know - my admiration for your continued & calm endeavours. From earlier trials. @MrTimDunn @RailwayHeritage @RAIL @TfL

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#OTD Sixty years ago today #GLASGOW said goodbye to its once world famous tram system - the last big municipality in the UK to abandon & in retrospect a great #transport loss. Not much more use for this wee booklet now 🫤 @NUL_Transport @oakroyd

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I'm guilty as the next person using "Crittall" windows as a generic term but it's important to recall other manufacturers inc Hope's of Smethwick. A glorious 1932 advert for #London #Underground #stations #TUBE #architecture @C20Society @mod_in_metro ➡️

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Not the Cross-Rail you all know & love! Oh no, this is the 1980 British Rail discussion on a north-south #London Inter-City tunnels that would have allowed this unlikely scene - APT on 3rd-rail at Croydon! #Rail @_doublearrow @ICELibrary @NUL_Transport

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4 years

Look where I have been (for the 1st time in many years!) & that any city should ever contemplate the loss of such a significant part of its architectural & cultural history is simply staggering. Here's to it surviving. #Hull @BhsMuralHull @shipsinthesky63 @SAVEBrit @C20Society

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@MrTimDunn That's great! & am pleased to see it's all still there - I was last on the station in 1997. Times were founded by John Jacobs, was flourishing in inter-war years, specialising in 'hire purchase' to the growing number of home owners. Another of their ads in 1939 LT brochure.

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How it started. The CrossRail mockup at Liverpool St stn 1992 (Tim Brown/Flickr) I recall the Class 341 'train' doing the rounds #London #Elizabethline #TRAIN #rail @_doublearrow @MrTimDunn

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Ah. I really needed this '60/70s laminate/formica coffee table didn't I? I bought it in Cardiff last year - finally arranged delivery this week. I really should 'know' the artist - sort of reminds me of those BR carriage end panels! #design #interiordecor #table

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3 years

Ghostly ciggies in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. #ghostsigns #shopfitting #Advertising @shipsinthesky63 @todbooklady @ghostsigns @OwdAlbert @GrimArtGroup

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It's a long time since I've added to my collection of packaging & tins - but I could not resist this. c.1960 Cadbury's Milk Chocolate Biscuits tin with adorable designs looking v. poster like! #Packaging #Tin #food #biscuits #chocolate #Birmingham #design

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5 years

Finally after years of meaning to go - a trip on the glorious Schwebebahn @MrTimDunn #wuppertal #schwebebahn #vehicledesign #traindesign #train #monorail Wuppertal Schwebebahn Hauptbahnhof, new rolling stock, November 2019 #flickr

Wuppertal Schwebebahn Hauptbahnhof, new rolling stock, November 2019

At Wuppertal Hbf one of the line's relatively new GTW15 trains - Schwebebahnzug - of the Wuppertaler Schwebebahn, the world's oldest operational monorail system. Not only is it operational, running...

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A sign of how long #London has been waiting for Crossrail/Elizabeth #rail line! My first info folder I picked up in c1992 just after I started work for LT - I've retired now! 30 years is a long time but here's to tomorrow. @_doublearrow @lonrec @richardprice500 @ICELibrary

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3 years

Following on from the advert with the Norman Jaques illustration - here's a fine example of his work - The Refuge Building & Oxford Rd in #Manchester superbly capturing the grime of his home city. Even the street lighting rings true! @lccmunicipal @GrimArtGroup @OwdAlbert

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I love the woodcuts of John F Greenwood, early C20th artist, who did much work in the Pennines & Yorkshire Dales. This evocative image of a bleak moorland road reminds me of many such a lane. #illustration @GrimArtGroup @OwdAlbert #LANCASHIRE #Yorkshire

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2 months

Congratulations to my 'old gang' at Tfl & LU who have overseen the restoration of the long defunct clock on the parade at Southgate station! Looking splendid again & telling the time. @mod_in_metro @SAVEBrit @C20Society (Pic TfL)

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4 years

I fear this may be niche even for #GrimArt but the Gas Light & Coke Company of London - Gasworks at Beckton - artwork by Cyril Farey, 1924. I hope you like this @HWarlow @GrimArtGroup #gasworks #beckton #industrialart #London

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The things you find. Forgotten I had this 1985 BR Principal Network poster #map . #railways #transport #GraphicDesign @_doublearrow @richardprice500 @NUL_Transport

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2 years

That glimpse of the Speedbird reminded me of the first post-WW2 Advertising Manual for BOAC that includes the proportional grid for the Theyre Lee-Ellott logo & the use of typefaces. #GraphicDesign #typography #corporatedesign @_doublearrow @DesignReviewed

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Jolly mix of BR's identity along with the mustard yellow of Greater Glasgow 1975/6 timetable. Some interesting spidery route diagrams as well, inc. the Underground aka Subway. #Scotland #GraphicDesign @PastGlasgow @oakroyd @_doublearrow @NUL_Transport

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4 years

Ah! When Brent Cross was all new and shiny & you could even buy a postcard of it! #London #Brent #Londonbus #shoppingcentre @lccmunicipal @time_nw @Memoire2cite #flickr

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Congrats to the gang in #London Underground's heritage team who have overseen the refurbishment of the freestanding roundel posts & shelters at Southgate station - pics from last night as the work was completed. ☑️ @NRHAwd @TfL @NUL_Transport @mod_in_metro @C20Society

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4 years

Hard to believe 43 years have passed since my morning Guardian contained the adorable "San Serriffe" April 1 spoof! First year I haven't been able to cackle with my Aunty Joan (who worked on Guardian) about it. #typeface #sanserif @guardian @C20thPosters @QuadRoyal @garius

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A rather fine early outing for the new British Rail Southern Region corporate identity - title page from the "Southern Travellers Handbook" for 1965 & the jazzy cover. #railway #graphicdesign #typography #Logo #1960s @_doublearrow @DesignReviewed @richardprice500

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A 1925 #woodcut by the suberb Flemish Belgian artist Frans Masereel from his wordless novel "La Ville/The City/Die Stadt" - 100 #illustration each a vision of modern urban life & quite German Expressionist in style. @GrimArtGroup @OwdAlbert ➡️

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3 years

A blank wall - oh and a rare surviving BR fluorescent platform lamp with name. #railway #Manchester

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#Modern design! 7 mins walk from Arnos Grove #tube station! Sponge rubber lined floor in bathroom! Bold #modernist #architecture in 1934 North #London ! £1650! #housing #design @mod_in_metro @C20Society

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An advert "designed to hold the eye" & issued by the relatively new commercial television studios of Granada TV in #Manchester whose publicity at the time was often well designed & bold. This by "Pinnock". #GraphicDesign @DesignReviewed @365posterblog1

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1 year

Now that's what I call a County Borough boundary sign! Loving that lettering and I wonder if any have survived in museums? (found photo) #stockport #sign @ShowMeASignBryn @RoadsignReport1

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4 years

What was the back of the gasworks in #Otley and tonight, in the drizzle and melting snow of a February evening, it felt suitably atmospheric. #landscape #streetscape #lane #GrimArt @GrimArtGroup @OwdAlbert

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A quartet of vignettes, prob by Reinganum, from the Southern Railway's fine publication "Over the Points" 1938/9 showing 'a Waterloo-trained passion for streamlining'. @BeautyOfTranspt @mod_in_metro #architecture #station #railway @NUL_Transport

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3 years

A long story behind these 2 maps of #London that are a 'year' apart 1933/4 but a graphic illustration of the #development of Metroland & #suburbs between the wars! See what you can see! #Middlesex #railway #tube @time_nw @lccmunicipal @MunicipalDreams

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Mike.Ashworth

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2 years

A little seen & often overlooked Holden building for the London Underground - the still extant office block in Acton Works, west #London , seen in Ferro-Concrete Review, 1933. #architecture #1930s #underground @C20Society @mod_in_metro @DrEitanKarol

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3 years

From Neil Jennings Fine Art - late '60s linocut by Hellmuth Weissenborn & capturing a fine urban landscape along with gasholder. @NewAngliaEnergy @GrimArtGroup @OwdAlbert #industrial #GrimArt

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3 years

One for old mill enthusiasts & @GrimArtGroup - the decaying Ellar Ghyll Mill on the boundary between Menston & #Otley in W #Yorkshire . Would be sad to see this go. #architecture #Industrial #dereliction #heritage @industrialstopy @TICCIHBrit @antonbeletskii

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3 years

@OwdAlbert @LeeMadgwick @pan1 It is a remarkable resurrection as, hell, had they made a mess. Nov '17 when I visited the site to talk faience & tiles.

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2 years

Everytime I sit on the bus to #Leeds & look down on this new shelter in Bramhope - built as part of a new Green Belt housing estate - my heart sinks a little ... I mean, how long will it last? @PlanningShit @DarrenMcLean_uk

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3 years

The wonderful 1846 Grade 2* Listed train shed & platforms at Filey, North #Yorkshire , with a Sunday @northernassist service to Scarborough & its very cheerful crew! #railway #Railways #architecture @RAIL @RailwayHeritage @shipsinthesky63

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Theatre Chambers, Hinton Rd, #Bournemouth seen in magazine article from 1933 by arch. A J Seal & Partners. Still there but looking v forlorn. #architecture #1930s (pic Alwyn Ladell/Flickr) @C20Society @mod_in_metro

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4 years

Made me smile & some moving @GrimArtGroup - from "The Man in the White Suit (1951) filmed on location in #Burnley #Lancashire at the junction of Albion Street and Piccadilly Road. (seen on Ensalada de lengua de pajaritos)

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#OTD 21 November 1948 Central line trains of London Underground first served stations to West Ruislip including Ruislip Gardens seen here along with the now lost gull-wing canopies & temp lights. #London #transport #OnThisDay

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3 years

A compass point for British Railways 1959 Holiday Runabout area season tickets - brochure cover designed by Tom Eckersley. #railway #advertising #GraphicDesign #1950s #transport @C20thPosters @365posterblog1 @DesignReviewed

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Gorbals, Glasgow by Edward Burra (1905 - 1976) in Liliput, November 1947. #Glasgow #Scotland #art @GrimArtGroup @OwdAlbert @PastGlasgow

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Before the creation of London Transport in 1933 the city's tramways were operated by a multiplicity of separate operators. Three companies were 'owned' by the Underground group & servied N W & S #London #transport #map #tram #1930s 1931 Map & guide➡️

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2 years

One of many post-WW2 popular histories - this "The Post Office went to War" showing the work & sacrifice of those involved in vital #postal #telecommunications svcs marvellous #illustrations by 'Coombs'. #GraphicDesign @thepostalmuseum @DesignReviewed

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Mike.Ashworth

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5 years

"Gaily into Ruislip Gardens runs the red electric train" @MrTimDunn @lccmunicipal @RailwayHeritage #centralline #ruislip #londonunderground Ruislip Garden station, Central line, London Underground - first day of tube services, 21 Novemb… #flickr

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Mike.Ashworth

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7 months

The long gone 1930's bus inspector's kiosk at North Finchley bus station @mod_in_metro #architecture #Transport (P. Marshall/Flickr)

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1972 - the 'West Riding' of #Yorkshire as was & the BR #map of the local #rail network just before the PTEs really became involved. Some - but not many - changes here. #publictransport #railway #TheNorth @_doublearrow @NUL_Transport @richardprice500 ➡️

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@matthewhodg From E&C to Camberwell comes a close second I'd say. Why TfL/Mayors have so ignored street mass transit I'll never really know - at the moment the ridiculous number of buses milling around at E&C is beyond ludicrious.

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3 years

For those of us transport archaeologists this is quite a find - in-situ relics of #Edinburgh 's cable tram car system (1888 - 1923) uncovered during modern tram extension works. @TICCIHBrit @ticciheurope @SAVEBrit @RAIL

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Tremendously exciting! A pulley transfer and cable inspection pit, sith it's c. 9 foot pulley wheels sitting just below the surface!

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One of our best refurbishments, Bethnal Green, the almost complete retiling (4 panels of originals survive), replicated faience linings to subways & ticket hall and - these superb 'roundel' clocks! Yes, I would have tucked one under my coat if I had been able to! @NUL_Transport

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So many years getting off Central Line at Bethnal Green and only this week clocked this gorgeous @TfL roundel clock. A late 1940s design courtesy of the Magneta Time Company 🕑

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5 years

Goodbye old friend - gave my last ever tour of 55 Broadway today, London Underground’s HQ building of 1929 vacated this week. @lccmunicipal @MrTimDunn @C20Society #oldfriend #endofanera #farewell #partofmylife

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3 years

Oh I love an old map me - a 1940 #London County Council off-print of the #London Areas Map showing the varied #Police #Traffic #Electricity #Water boundaries along with the many local authorities. @lccmunicipal

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2 years

Monotype Recorder covers from 1937 using Gill's Perpetua typeface & the company's Super Caster machine. #typography #typeface #1930s #magazinecover @DesignReviewed

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2 years

Hands up those who recall #Edinburgh 's Metro proposals from the 1980s? How deep that line would have to go under Waverley & the High St. Interesting to see the Trams roughly follows the East-West route alignment. @cocteautriplets #Transport #planning

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Stlll, to my mind, one of the greatest design books published : the Danish Design Council/Dansk Designråd 1986 homage to British Rail's corporate identity - a book designed to match an brand image. @_doublearrow @NUL_Transport #GraphicDesign #Railway ➡️

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@C20Society @birmingham_live @brutifulbrum @modernistsocBHM @Birm_Arch @C20WestMids The oddest thing about Birmingham, a city I grew up in during the '60s, is they keep making decisions that actually make the place worse; this is an example of that shortsightedness. It's not just about the architecture - it's now also now about sustainability. @SAVEBrit

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A striking 1985 poster for British Rail's Intercity Sleeper services & saver fares. #poster #Advertising #rail #railway #1980s #GraphicDesign #locomotive #trains

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The now demolished South Wales generating station of 1953 - 84 seen in artwork by Guinevere More @GrimArtGroup @NewAngliaEnergy @EngineerLondon #WALES @richardprice500 Carmarthen Bay Power Station | Art UK

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I find myself in Preston on a chilly December Sunday. #preston #Lancashire #architecture @SAVEBrit @C20Society

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I do like a clue as to the whereabouts of an old W H Smith’s especially when it’s a mosaic shop entrance. Llandidrod Wells, #WALES . #Logo #Mosaic #shop #heritage

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The shape of travel to come : British Rail postcard of the InterCity APT c.1980, the ill-fated Class 370 high speed tilting prototype train for the West Coast Main Line - tested 1980-86 before being abandoned. @_doublearrow @NUL_Transport #railways ➡️

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We quite rightly condemn the demolition of the Crooked House yet, a few miles away, the local authority oversee the demolition of this building. Work that one out. @SAVEBrit @C20Society #architecture

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And "eyesore" boards (been there for decades) come down. How can DMBC demolish this? Original 30s Crittall windows. @bclmdirector @C20Society @dudleymbc @hbap1924 @HistoricEngland @luhc @SAVEBrit @WMHBT @TheatresTrust @WeAreBCR

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Amongst the great of #GrimArt - Brangwyn's 1935 poster for the London & North Eastern Railway's North East Coast Industries series. @GrimArtGroup #industry #posters #tyneside #teesside @TeessideArchive @IndustrialTside

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Well I posted the Scotland & North England section of the 1965 British Rail map - so here's the southern (England & Wales) scan showing the #railway network as was. #trains #transport #Map zoomable ➡️

Mike.Ashworth

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1965 British Rail national network/regional boundaries map : likely one of the first outing for the new corporate idenity @_doublearrow #Scotland on this scan, interesting to see towns on the map already 'removed' from the network. #railways @natlibscotmaps @NUL_Transport #maps

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@tubemapper I always wished we could have re-issued these posters a few years ago! They're still pertinent.

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3 years

Ha, Crossrail - I raise you Crosstown! The 1980 British Rail leaflet announcing further reinvigoration of the North #London line as the Crosstown LinkLine. Some great period artwork! #rail #railway #Logo @_doublearrow @richardprice500

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On this day, 17 July 1932, the Southern Railway opened the 1st phase of the Brighton Main LIne electrification from Coulsdon to Three Bridges/Reigate. V Southern 'moderne' publicity to emphasis the changes. @NUL_Transport @JoeBrownLondon #railways #OTD ↘️

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Another work by Edward Burra (1905 - 1976) as seen in Liliput magazine, November 1947. "Public Bar" in #London #painting #artwork #pub #bar #beer @OwdAlbert @GrimArtGroup

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Mike.Ashworth

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The rather splendid scraperboard #illustration by noted #transport artist A. N. Wolstenholme on the cover of the 1947 Ian Allan "British Electric Trains" : it shows a Bakerloo line 1938-ts flying under a Met line train at Wembley Park. @NUL_Transport

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@todbooklady @C20Society @modernistsoc @churchartnature @StroudStory @chartres_Fiona @2019Ifaw @Barb_Drummond @culham_mark @DavidMa16901372 @Joseamey On the move. The conservation contractors did wonderful work throughout this project. As for me - I aged about 100 years. There were moments when this was a titanic struggle.

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Mike.Ashworth

@Mikeashworth12

2 years

When #Edinburgh nearly had an #underground #railway Well, an interesting map with Caledonian Rly c1890 proposals for a subterreanean line under Princes St & other connections to Leith. @cocteautriplets @Scranlife @NUL_Transport #Scotland #Map Story ➡️

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Mike.Ashworth

@Mikeashworth12

2 years

As Swift as an Arrow - the Southern Railway advertising it's new #electric #trains services & the "Southern Homes" book in 1933 with colourful #poster by Helen Ray Marshall. #transport #1930s #Railway @NUL_Transport @C20thPosters @365posterblog1 ➡️

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Mike.Ashworth

@Mikeashworth12

3 years

"Cake and singing on PM’s birthday was not a party, says Grant Shapps " A bit like the fact the Integrated Rail Plan is not an Integrated Rail Plan eh Grant? @RAIL @NoelDolphin

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Mike.Ashworth

@Mikeashworth12

11 months

In my LU files - this is I think the Aldwych station Open Day on 11 October 1989 that saw the protoype 1986-tube stock train pay a visit. #London #railways #underground

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Mike.Ashworth

@Mikeashworth12

3 years

Why this now incessant need to trash your own corporate identity & logo TfL? Lettering on the bar is one thing - but on the red circle is simply puerile. #GraphicDesign #Logo #London

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Mike.Ashworth

@Mikeashworth12

1 year

On the topic of pictorial #maps (faves of mine!) the "Mackay" version of #Scotland much used by the Scottish Bus Group of companies for decades after the late 1940s. This is an unfolded 1964 tour brochure. @C20thPosters @cocteautriplets @natlibscotmaps

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Mike.Ashworth

@Mikeashworth12

4 years

One of the odder things I've collected... #birmingham #spaghettijunction #motorway @Brumpic @ShowMeASignBryn @roads_uk @sabreroads @lccmunicipal 👉

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Mike.Ashworth

@Mikeashworth12

7 months

Bolton born Charles Holden gazing out over his 1930s Senate House for the University of #London . He was also the prolific consultant architect to the Underground group & his legacy inc. the raft of modernist stations & 55 Broadway, the old HQ #architecture @NUL_Transport

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Mike.Ashworth

@Mikeashworth12

2 years

The 1937 LNER Continental Timetable, all very corporate, & showing how adventurous, overland #railway journeys were possible - the #London Liverpool St & Harwich to #China & #Japan timetable! #travel #adventure @seatsixtyone @_doublearrow @NUL_Transport

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Mike.Ashworth

@Mikeashworth12

1 year

You can just make out the "DOW" on Down Street disused station on the #London #underground PIccadilly line, pic'd in 1997. Some of the original 1906 platform tiles that remain tucked away in equipment rooms despite the station's conversion to WW2 use. #history @NUL_Transport

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Mike.Ashworth

@Mikeashworth12

3 years

@GrimArtGroup It reminds me somehow of this 1937 sketch of a Bitumen Works by Geoffrey Hodgkinson - never been able ot trace anything about this one

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Mike.Ashworth

@Mikeashworth12

2 years

From #London Farringdon station in 2010 when the programme of works began - fascia boards from the 1922 Metropolitan Rly rebuild inc the famous 'buffet & restaurant'. #tube #underground #signs #ghostsigns @ghostsigns

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Mike.Ashworth

@Mikeashworth12

4 years

Before I get GEC'd out & have to lie down, damp cloth on forehead etc.. Who recalls these BR gems? I nearly maanged to save one from East Ham during my LU time. @lccmunicipal @TTShields @DavidCoxArt @SirPeterHendy

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Mike.Ashworth

@Mikeashworth12

2 years

I'm sure you've seen this before @OwdAlbert - but my, a cornucopia of old #Bolton inc that bus, that road sign @ShowMeASignBryn (Pic Bolton Council) #LANCASHIRE

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