Great Eastern Railway Cheap Excursions Notice

Notice. Great Eastern Railway. Cheap Excursion from Liverpool Street to Sudbury, Bury St Edmund's, Walton-on-the-Naze, Clacton-on-Sea, and to Colchester, Harwich, Ipswich, Felixstowe, Woodbridge, Bungay, Beccles, Aldebrugh, Lowestoft, Yarmouth, on 29 March 1888. Red and blue text on white background with decorative border. Printed at the Company's Works, Stratford. Conserved and backed.

Posters and eye-catching travel guides were used by railway companies at stations to promote leisure activities, holidays and travel opportunities to passengers waiting for their train. Railway companies regularly commissioned graphic artists to design the posters to make them visually engaging and market attractive things to do by train to encourage more customers.