How to Choose Your Rail Ticket: British Rail: Jan 1983

How to Choose a Train Ticket: and Save Money

• 1983 Jan 09
• H.Q. 18. London Edition
• “This is the Age of the Train”
• 20 pages – with colour coded tabs to help locate pages
• Size: 21cm x 15 cm x 1mm thick
• Weight: 38g
• British Rail booklet whose purpose is to instruct the passenger on how to buy a ticket and what types there are, as well as advertising / promoting the various services.
• The people you see in the images do not look like normal British Rail passengers - they are just too happy and too well dressed and not what I remember passengers from London looking like then. Must be actors/extras?
• Apart from the advertising image that British Rail were projecting at the time of happy passengers, this booklet features images of three Intercity 125’s.
• There is a rather scary image of Jimmy Saville on p15 offering £1 vouchers and a separate Kellogg’s Free Rail Tickets for Children promotion.
• P17 has a yellow train in Europe travelling past a wind mill – presumably in the Netherlands?
• Why should you want to purchase this? Apart from collecting the glory days (?) of nationised British Rail train travel, this booklet is a great example of early 1980’s advertising. Also – maybe you know some of the people who featured in it and perhaps this booklet might make a nice present for them?
• In good condition for a used item although there is a slight crease near centre spine of cover
• If buyer lives outside the UK then they are responsible for any customs duty or import taxes
• For returns the buyer pays for repackaging and postage
• If you want to buy  this item and others in my shop - contact me, letting me know which items, and I will recalculate postage for you

Enjoy!