Advertising Christmas: Posters for Christmas trains before 1914

London and North Western Railway - 1853

York, Newcastle and Berwick; York and North Midland and Leeds Northern Railways - 1853

Stockton & Darlington Railway -1856

Liskeard & Looe Railway - 1906

A Royal Train Flyer - 1898

This timetable was issued at stations along the route of a train carrying Queen Victoria from Windsor to Portsmouth Harbour on 10 March 1898. Indeed, the purpose of these flyers was so that individuals living close to the line knew when the royal train was passing and turn out to see it.