Start with a railway journey, explore the poster tradition, or find the advice for your own photograph below. Each section has its own introduction and a reading order, and the journey guides aren’t listings: they name the locomotives, the engineers and the dates, because that’s what you’d want to know before you spent a Saturday on a platform.
Stage 1: Railway journeys
- Polar Express train rides UK
- The Jacobite and Glenfinnan
- The Settle to Carlisle line
- The Severn Valley Railway
- Pickering to Whitby
- The Bluebell Railway
- Bishops Lydeard to Minehead
- The Watercress Line
- Snowdon, Llanberis to the summit
Stage 2: The poster
- Vintage railway posters
- Railway posters, the whole tradition
- Art deco railway posters
- The Great Western look
- The LNER decade
- The British Rail years
Stage 3: Your photograph
Stage 4: The gift
- Railway gifts, the argument
- What personalised means here
- For a spotter
- For a steam enthusiast
- For a model railway builder
- For dads and granddads
- The card that goes with it
Stage 5: On the wall
Written by Craig Fearn, Trackside Prints. Last updated .