Christmas shopping in London?

Poster, British Railways, Christmas Shopping in London? Pay Much Less than the Ordinary Fare with a Cheap Awayday Return, 1980. Photolithograph depicting Christmas lights in London's Oxford Street, with a photograph of television personality Jimmy Savile holding up an outsize Cheap Awayday Return ticket. Additional text reads "Pay much less than the Ordinary fare with a cheap Awayday Return". Below the photograph are the words "This is the age of the train" and the British Rail double arrow logo. In the bottom margin are the words "Published by British Railways Board (Central Publicity Unit). Printed in Great Britain by St Michael's Press, P733/1180/A". Format double royal.

Details

Category:
Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills
Object Number:
1983-8392
type:
poster
credit:
British Rail, Records Office