Railway Printed Ephemera by William Fenton
Railway Printed Ephemera by William Fenton
Hard Cover w/dust jacket.
Copyright 1992
200 pages. Indexed
Being a tragi-comic picture of the rise and fall of the railways in Great Britain deduced from some of the bits and pieces of paper they left behind. With a forward by John Lewis FSIA.
CONTENTS
Foreword Page 5
Introduction Page 7
In the beginning Page 9
Open for business Page 24
Railway people Page 35
The locomotives Page 51
The carriages Page 62
Other rolling stock Page 82
Ancillary services Page 93
The buildings Page 101
Travelling by train Page 113
The goods Page 147
Keeping things moving Page 157
Something to celebrate Page 172
The end Page 187
Index Page 193
When the steam locomotive engine, or more popularly `the puffer', disappeared from British railways in 1967 something died. At that moment the collecting of railway ephemera burst into bloom. Pure nostalgia led to the longing to own the nameplate of one's favourite engine or, failing that, the numberplate, builder's plate, whistle, or even chimney.
Overlapping this event was the ongoing process of line closures instigated by Doctor Beeching. Thus station name totems, seats, lamps, cast-iron trespass notices, bridge plates and other hardware were added to the list of desirable objects.
In the meantime, largely unnoticed, a small quiet nucleus of collectors of share certificates, tickets, notices, labels, posters, timetables and the broader spectrum of printed ephemera had been building their portfolios for many years.
Railway printed ephemera is only now beginning to take its rightful place high on the list of railway collectables.
Illustrating subjects mainly drawn from his own unique collection, William Fenton suggests that, through the pages of Railway Printed Ephemera the complete history of our railways, the staff, buildings, rolling stock, et al, is simply waiting to be discovered and enjoyed.
William Fenton graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1950 and his career as a designer, illustrator, typographer and author has had much to do with our railways. One of his poster designs for London Transort was their bestseller and he has also designed posters for British Rail. He was responsible for the design of the `ephemera' and logos associated with the royal openings of the Victoria Line, the Heathrow extension and the Jubilee Line for the London Underground.
Other books by the author include About Railways with Herbert Simon; Locomotives in Retirement, two volumes; A Portfolio of Railway Notices; Nineteenth Century Locomotive Engravings; The Last Drop (the end of steam on London Transport) with John Day, and Printers' Trains.
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