Most people arrive here having typed something like vintage railway poster into a search box, and what they'll usually get back is a shop. This stage is the reading instead. What those posters physically were, who kept them, and why the style still looks the way it does. Nothing on this page is for sale, and these guides cite the national collection rather than repeating what everyone else has written.
The reading, in order
6 pages sit in this stage, and they are meant to be read in this order rather than picked over: Vintage railway posters, Railway posters, the whole tradition, Art deco railway posters, The Great Western look, The LNER decade, and The British Rail years.
And after that
The stage that follows this one is your photograph: The picture is the input, and it decides everything after it. What prints well, what the studio styles do to it, and how large it can honestly go.
Written by Craig Fearn, Trackside Prints. Last updated .