The New Train Ferry Boats SS Twickenham Ferry Southern Railway

Original vintage travel advertising poster - The New Train Ferry Boats via Dover Dunkerque - featuring artwork by the British painter and poster artist Walter Thomas (1894-1971) depicting the SS Twickenham Ferry sailing across the Strait of Dover on the English Channel at dusk with the lights on board reflecting on the sea waves, the setting sun creating a shadow of the boat in the foreground with other boats at sea and land visible in the distance, the bold title text and information on the margin below - Sleeping Cars every night between London Victoria and Paris / Fast through services every day for goods, cars and perishable traffic / For details of services, fares, rates etc. from Southern Railway Continental Department Victoria Station SW1. Built in 1934 for Southern Railway, the Twickenham train ferry served the Dover and Dunkerque route until 1939; she was converted into a minesweeper and renamed HMS Twickenham for the duration of World War Two (1939-1945); after the war she returned to her cross-channel ferry services until being scrapped in 1974. Printed by McCorquodale and Co Ltd London. Horizontal. Large size. Fair condition, restored folds, restored tears, some fold marks, unrestored tears, staining, creasing, backed on linen.