Keep Your Station Tidy

Made:
1976 in United Kingdom
publisher:
British Rail
maker:
Keep Britain Tidy
Keep Your Station Tidy

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Poster, British Railways, Keep Your Station Tidy, 1976. Photolithograph depicting the Swedish pop group Abba wearing Keep Britain Tidy t-shirts and holding brooms, mops and buckets. Text above, with the British Rail double arrow logo at bottom left, and at bottom right the Tidyman logo of Keep Britain Tidy, a man dropping litter into a rubbish bin. Format double royal.

The railways were a very dangerous industry in the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries with many thousands of workers injured or killed each year. Growing pressure from trades unions and new safety laws gradually improved the safety for railway workers and safety posters and notices were produced to raise awareness of the dangers to life and limb.

Details

Category:
Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills
Object Number:
1981-7368
Materials:
paper (fibre product)
Measurements:
overall: 1014 mm x 634 mm
type:
poster
credit:
British Rail, Records Office

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