Perhaps as a reflection on the national decline in postcard usage and collecting, the selection of postcards available at the National Railway Musuem at York is drastically reduced from not so many years ago. It is a bit of an event when a new card is published. To support the commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of Churchill’s funeral train, a new card has been issued. The stock number on the back of the card is 10562963.
Category Archives: New Cards
Eurostar Bringing together 20 years
The departure lounge of Eurostar at St Pancras has a couple of racks of free postcards commemorating 20 years of Eurostar. There are eleven postcards and a reply card asking for comments/thoughts on the impact of Eurostar to cross border logistics/relations. The cards are not obviously available at Brussels Midi or Paris Nord.
Click here to see the postcards:
There is set of cards available to the first member who asks ( postage £1).
spring 2015 Stampex postcard
Stampex postcard Feb 2015
Spring Stampex is being held until Saturday 21st February 2015 at the Business Design Centre at Islington, North London.
Admission is free and you also receive one of these locomotive Planet postcards.
If you cannot attend I have a spare copy which I will send for the price of a stamp to the first member that asks.
New Cards
The aim of this section is to make members aware of railway postcards that have been recently published and availability details when known.
Often railway postcards are published for specific events in quite low quantities and therefore it maybe that all stocks have been cleared very quickly and we cannot guarantee availability.
As postcards are seen by most as an old fashioned and obsolete method of communications, the continuing availability of new issues cannot be taken for granted. Thankfully, many people still regard a picture postcard as a cheap souvenir of a visit and so many railway heritage and preservation sites still keep stocks of postcards. Museums and Preservation societies that are known to have published postcards will be listed under the listings section. We will try to advise whether they are still selling railway postcards (either their own or commercial publishers’ products) however situations can change quickly.