Railway Excursions, 1931

This leaflet is one of many that would have been produced giving details of specal trains, services and tickets. In this case the leaflet refers to holiday return tickets available from stations over the old Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway (LD & EC), in 1931.

At the grouping of railways in 1923 (where numerous small companies were grouped into four), the Great Central Railway, who had absorbed the old LD & EC, became part of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER).

Despite competition from local bus services the railways were still well-placed to offer competitive journey opportunities to longer destinations. This leaflet details the type of facilities such companies could offer to the holiday maker. Dated June 1931, the  LNER were offering 'Period Excursions' through their travel agents Dean and Dawson. These 'holiday return tickets' allowed travel at reduced rates, on special trains. Leaflets like this would be printed in their hundreds, bundled up and hung on string in station booking offices throughout the area that they applied.