Here’s an odd kind of train crash. A cleaner stole a train and ran it off the end of the line and into a building.
This happened in Sweden; where the cold, dark winters can have an effect on how people are feeling.
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It turns out the lady wasn’t driving…
Here’s a film poster from 1948. It’s by Manfred Reiss. I found out about him when I was researching accident prevention posters by RoSPA and GPO posters. He was one of a group of emigre artists and designers who came to Britain before WW2.
Looking at the poster, it’s a bit like a poster by FHK Henrion for the GPO.
FHK Henrion is better known than Manfred Reiss and is considered one of the significant personalities of post-war British design. Looking at these posters, I imagine that Henrion and Reiss were friends and colleagues in the 1940s.
Ealing Film Studios are famous for the post-WW2 comedy films. The advertising art-director of Ealing was St John Woods, who was a friend of the artist John Piper. He commissioned film poster designs by many well known British artists of the 1940s – John Piper, Edward Bawden and John Minton amongst them.
Today, this film has more-or-less disappeared without trace. You can probably guess that the film is about undercover resistance in occupied Belgium. The plot involves the blowing up of railway lines and so forth.
The poster is lovely.
I’ve posted about Ealing film posters before. Here, and for The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/aug/04/1
The Compagnie Internationale des Wagons Lits was established to provide high quality trans European rail services. Its trans-national services were assured by providing its own luxuriously appointed saloon, dining and sleeping cars. These were modelled after the American example of George Pullman.
Here are some poster images of US streamlined trains…coming round the mountain
Here is a poster by the great Russian/French designer AM Cassandre for the LMS railway. Terrific.
This is an O scale model railway station. It’s homemade from bits of wood and metal and covered in paper. You may be wondering why we bought this. It’s simple, it is covered with reproduction posters.
These miniature posters were published by Hornby and Basset Lowke so that an extra level of realism could be added to track side platforms.
The poster for Cruden Bay is by Tom Purvis. Cruden Bay was a golfing resort in Scotland that was popular in the 1930s. Tom Purvis was a master of flat-colour poster design. The combination of golf and Purvis would be a real banker in poster collecting.
Maybe 10 000GBP!
