. Electric railway journal . all the theaters areshown in red, the principal hotels, restaurants and publicbuildings in green, and the tube line in white. This design December 4, 1909.] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. 35 has proved very effective in promoting the use of the sub-ways for travel to and from Londons pleasure section. Thetheater advertising is strongly reinforced by splendid trainservice for the crowds going and returning. For example,the late train schedules are so arranged that at PiccadillyCircus, where the Piccadilly and Bakerloo lines intersect,the last trains in each of the four d
. Electric railway journal . all the theaters areshown in red, the principal hotels, restaurants and publicbuildings in green, and the tube line in white. This design December 4, 1909.] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. 35 has proved very effective in promoting the use of the sub-ways for travel to and from Londons pleasure section. Thetheater advertising is strongly reinforced by splendid trainservice for the crowds going and returning. For example,the late train schedules are so arranged that at PiccadillyCircus, where the Piccadilly and Bakerloo lines intersect,the last trains in each of the four directions meet at 1a. m. Hence there is no danger that passengers on the lasttrain of one line will be unable to transfer to the the vicinity of the Piccadilly Circus station is quite arendezvous for Continental visitors, the company has pro-vided a uniformed linguist at that place. This interpreter isparticularly valuable at the times when exhibitions are beingheld in London. The arrow poster reproduced shows some. SOUTH KENSI NGTON London Traffic Advertising—Art and Utility Combined ina Museum Poster of the important connections that can be made and some ofthe places reached by the Bakerloo tube. While this isheaded by the name of the particular line instead of Under-ground the general style is maintained by using boxedletters as on the other sheets. Many fine posters have been prepared of Londons beauti-ful suburbs which have been made more accessible by theunderground railways. It is only practicable to reproducea few of the designs, however. As they must be printed inblack and white, it is impossible to convey an adequateidea of their artistic coloring. Many of the scenes, such asTTampstead Heath and Richmond Park proved so popularthat they were lithographed in reduced size on coated paper for home decoration. The posters on the country and sea-shore resorts are reinforced by descriptive folders whichare illustrated with excellent half-tones. On the occasionsof
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