In the midst of a small batch of older railway magazines, was a partial copy of the July 1918 copy of “The Railway and Travel Monthly.”

The price for the magazine: 1 shilling

Edited by: G.A. Sekon.

I find these old magazines quite interesting particularly for the contemporary view they provide on what, for us, is railway history.

Articles and Advertising. …

The articles listed on the contents page of the magazine were:

• Coloured Presentation Plate of Great Central Railway 4-6-0 Express Locomotive “Lord Farringdon,” No. 1169.
• The 4-6-0 Locomotives of the London and South Western Railway.
• Concrete Boilers for Locomotives.

• The Naming of British Locomotives, (its advertising influence: the methods adopted).
• The King in Scotland(an illustration).

• Side Door Coaches for American Suburban Trains
• British Express Trains and Locomotives.
• Three Position Light-Signal on the Metropolitan Railway.
• The Century of the ” Railway and Travel Monthly.”

• Correspondence.
• Nautical News and Notes.
• Dock, Harbour, and Shipbuilding Comments.
• The Why and the Wherefore.
• Apposite Aphorisms
• What is Happening on our Railways.
• What our Railways were doing Seventy-Seven Years Ago.

• The Stephenson Locomotive Society.

Much of the advertising space at the front of this magazine was given over to different railway companies seeking to attract manufacturers to their area of operation. These included adverts from: the Great Northern Railway; the Furness Railway; the Midland Railway; the Metropolitan Railway; the North Staffordshire Railway; the South Eastern and Chatham Railway; the Midland and South Western Junction Railway; the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway; the London Brighton and South Coast Railway; and the London and South Western Railway. There was also a half page advert from the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Co., Ltd. These are all shown below.

Two other adverts, shown first and second below, were interesting. …

First, a poignant and generous advert from the publisher who had worked with the Post Office to  provide an opportunity for readers of the magazine to hand in their read copies of the magazine at any post office to be ‘sent to the Troops at the Front free of charge’.

Second, an advert for a colour print of the Great Central Railway Immingham Deep-water Dock, unfolded for framing, in a tube, post free for the princely sum of 4d. And if you wanted to check how good it was you could call in at the journal’s offices on Cursitor Street, London.

References

1. G.A. Sekon (ed.); The Railway and Travel Monthly, July 1918.