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Speed to the West poster

Company: Great Western Railway
Title: Speed to The West
Date: 1939
Description: In the late 1930s, the steam locomotive was in its heyday and it was the ambition of every boy to be an engine driver. This poster, showing a "King" class locomotive with a holiday train on the way to the West Country, plays on this theme.
Inv. No. 1979-7920
© National Railway Museum / Science & Society Picture Library

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