Godfrey Holmes reflects on time(tables) gone by
ll railway counter literature is advertising, right? To get bums on seats; to keep existing customers; to tempt future customers; or to propagate the company image. And timetables and flyers are free: shiny paper, maybe just the size of one third of an A4 sheet. So why hang on to this – why not consign it to landfill? Well, railways evolve: new operators, new livery, new stations, new routes, new rolling stock.
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