The British Library, next door to St Pancras station, has a fascinating current exhibition giving an insight into how the press has operated since its inception. These two railway references were included. The Tay Bridge disaster report from The Aberdeen Journal comes with a sketch of the bridge still intact and a cross-section immediately below it to show just which parts of the structure had been affected. Cyril Power’s linocut “The Tube Train” of c.1934 [copyright applies] shows commuters on a tube train all reading newspapers so avidly that the papers appear to have become merged with the seated figures strung out along both sides of the coach’s length.
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