British Railways Publicity

Railair	Gatwick Express	Disruption
Station Improvements	Magazines	Sands Across the Sea
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Railair

Heathrow


April 1978	May 1978	July 1979 via Reading	July 1979 via London Transport	July 1979 via Feltham

April 1980 via Feltham

Gatwick


1960	1969	1973	1974	1975/6

May 1976 Gatwick - Le Touquet	1977/8	1978	1981/2

Gatwick Express

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1984


1984	1985	May 1985	July 1985	1986

1986	Until May 1987	From May 1987	1988	1988

1988	1990	1994

Double Royal Posters


1975	1979	1979	1984 Launch

1985	1986 - Pre transfer of sub-sector to InterCity

Disruption

The Southern Railways and latterly The Southern Region‘s Public Relations & Publicity Department at Waterloo had a tradition of producing some excellent literature. want to run a RAILWAY? was very much in this tradition.

Published in October 1962, this 48 page booklet was distributed to Southern Region commuters. It covered the scale of daily operation, the difficulties faced and an explanation of the most common problems, such as fog, snow and ice.

Amazing foresight, as the following winter was to be of the worst on record and saw, for the last time, the widespread use of steam locos assisting stranded electric multiple units, right across the region.


August 1978	January 1979	December 1979	1979	1980
Poster with poem about problems of leaf fall. Click image for readable version.
1980	October 1982	December 1983

Station Improvements

Clapham Junction


May 1986	Poster

London Bridge

Operation London Bridge entailed resignalling the whole network of lines through London Bridge, constucting a new signal box and major alterations to the track at the station.


January 1972	February 1973	July 1973	August 1974	March 1976

March 1976	May 1976


1976 Poster

Victoria

Operation Victoria entailed resignalling the whole network of lines which feed into the station, constucting a new signal box at Clapham Junction and major alterations to the track at the station and its approaches.