Bicester North station was in 1980 a bit of a

railway backwater with BR's determined rundown of what is now known as the Chiltern Line in full swing. There had been very little investment in the line with much of its infrastructure remaining back in the Victorian era! Inside the waiting room at North station, Graham and I stumbled across these quite extraordinary survivors, even back in 1980. Hanging on the walls, that themselves were much in need of a lick of paint, were these two very faded but unmistakeably GWR posters. The one to the left shows Windsor Castle and the Thames with the one to the right appears to be Cheddar Gorge. In an amazing turnaround, it's ironic that the present-day TOC GWR have adopted this style of artwork as the backdrop to their 'Famous Five' advertising campaign. I hope that when the renovation of the station occurred that somebody saved these posters and they were simply not skipped by some contractor who did not recognise them for what they were.