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Skegness is so bracing

from The National Archives UK

  • tedesco57 said:
    from a different world....
  • beachcomber australia said:
    ... Skegness was primarily a fishing village and small port,[9] and significant numbers of visitors were not seen before the arrival of the railway in 1875. In 1908, the Great Northern Railway commissioned a poster to advertise excursions to the resort: the first such excursion was from King's Cross, London on Good Friday 1908, leaving London at 11.30 am.[10] The "Skegness is so Bracing" poster featuring the Jolly Fisherman helped to put Skegness on the map and is now famous. The poster, derived from an oil painting by John Hassall, was purchased by the railway company for 12 guineas (£12.60).[10] However Mr Hassall did not visit the resort until 1936. He is said to have died penniless. ... From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skegness#Railway
  • Violet Bicycle said:
    kiermit suey'sied
  • Lesley said:
    memories :)

Trains lined up at sheds, Adelaide, Co. Antrim.

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 4 older comments, and then…
  • Robin Parkes said:
    Why is it in Location Hunters? Sure it's Adelaide Yard in Belfast. There is a new traincare facility there now.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Entrance to Adelaide Station is here
  • Sharon Corbet said:
    The locomotive in the foreground (no. 187) was built in 1913 and was withdrawn from service some time in the 5 years after this photo.
  • Robert Foster said:
    Great shot of the shunting yard, great to see working steam engines.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Interesting detail: looking through the window of the 3rd loco, I think I see the Red Hand logo of the Ulster Transportation Authority, which was only formed in May 1958, a year or so before this shot. The earlier GNR logo had a smaller Red Hand, surrounded by castles, a ship, a skeleton (?) etc. [Edit: the skeleton is from the arms of Derry, the ship from Belfast, 3 of the castles from Dublin]

Engraving plant on press car (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Wystan said:
    On the Great Northern Railway. Photo by Brown Photo Co., St. Paul, Minnesota.
  • flyingmonkeyair said:
    Wystan, Do you know what the function of a press car was? This is the engraving section. It looks like the produced the master sheets for printing. Was a whole newspaper production facility in different cars? And why would it need be on a train? Is this the equivalent of the mobile truck with the satellite dish on top? :-)