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Tourism gone vintage

NRM/Pictorial Collection/Science & Society Picture Library (Credit: NRM/Pictorial Collection/Science & Society Picture Library)NRM/Pictorial Collection/Science & Society Picture Library
(Credit: NRM/Pictorial Collection/Science & Society Picture Library)

What makes old-school tourism posters so appealing? And how did they get so strikingly stylish? We take a whistle-stop tour of 60 years of British railway posters to find out.