These days when planning a train journey we use technology but back in 1956, if you wanted to plan a rail journey, on one of the many different services available you either went to the station or for one shilling you could buy a Passenger Services book. Such a guide provided every piece of information...

All aboard!!! Predating the privatisation by a decade, this piece of British Rail ephemera is over 30 years old. Published by British Rail the map shows the entire Passenger Network as it stood between May 1983 and May 1984. This type of item was supposed to be disposable, as it would have been updated...

Created for the London and North Eastern Railway company as part of the Beautiful Britain Series of playing cards, this was a way of promoting the company to the wider public before the days of social media. Interestingly, this humble everyday item bears evidence of social, political and economic strife,...

You can hear the shriek of the whistle and smell the smoke in your nostrils with this item. Having been played for around four decades this pack of Top Trumps is in remarkably good condition. The set is complete with 32 cards, the title card and even the 10 points credit card. All are in clean undamaged...