In Pictures: 'All clear for the guns'
Posted: 10 May 2009 10:48
A series of really informative posters from World War II about how different the railways were during wartime to peacetime. Especially that Cheap Returns were suspended from 1942 to deter non-essential travel, or that trains were frequently delayed to prioritise freight - what would the freight companies do today if they looked at their allocated timings on the WCML compared to Virgin!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/8039882.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/8039882.stm