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Figure 4

Illustrated colour poster from the 1920s advertising travel by the Flying Scotsman steam train depicting a boy looking up at the towering body of the train

© National Railway Museum/Science & Society Picture Library

The LNER aligned the ‘Flying Scotsman’ service with modernism as seen in this poster by A R Thomson from 1932.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15180/160507/008