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Over Half a Million Men are maintaining a Vital National Service
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Archivist's Summary A wartime poster publicising the important work of the railways.

Note: the publication date and year of this poster is not known.
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Category Publicity material
Related Event N/A
Date of Publication 1940
Author(s) Railway Executive Committee
Publisher Railway Executive Committee
Sourced? Yes
Source BBC
Original Document Link None
Source Format Paper
Document Copyright
Permission Requested? No
Permission Granted? No
PDF Available? Yes
PDF File Copyright
No. of Pages 1
Size of Download (Mb) 0.3
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World war two 		 
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1940
All Clear for the Guns on British Railways

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1940
Another Mechanised Army

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1940
Food, Shells and Fuel Must Come First

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1940
In War and Peace We Serve

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1940
Is Your Journey Really Necessary?

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1940
Keep 'Em Moving

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1940
Over Half a Million Men are maintaining a Vital National Service

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1940
There isnt even half an engine to spare for unnecessary journeys

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June 1944
Now That Our Men Have Landed on Enemy Soil

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July 1945
Report on the Explosion that occurred at Bootle on 22nd March 1945

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September 1945
Telling the World

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29th October 1947
Report on the Collision which occurred on 17th September, 1947, at Burton Agnes Level Crossing on the London and North Eastern Railway

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Investigation Report No. R2010 – 004: Malahide Viaduct Collapse on the Dublin to Belfast Line, on the 21st August 2009
 

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added 18:30 on 08 Sep:
Olympic trains 'being modified'
A train company says correction work is being carried out on the 140mph Japanese-built Javelin train...>>>

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Stansted train time poster banned
Posters advertising the Stansted Express are banned for implying the train would reach central Londo...>>>

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