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Title:
Headboard - The Cornishman
Object name(s):
headboard; headboard
Brief description:
Headboard, British Railways (Western Region), "The Cornishman", brown letters on cream surmounted by pixie on a toadstool, (unofficial title for Great Western Railway express from London Paddington to Penzance 1890-1904), Wolverhampton to Torquay and Penzance, British Railways (Western Region) 1952-1975 (1971, extended to Leeds and Bradford).
Collection:
Science Museum Group
Associated concept:
locomotives and rolling stock components
Associated concept:
Running the Railway
Associated person:
British Railways, Western Region
Person's association:
association details
Credit line:
British Rail, Historical Relics
Object name:
headboard; headboard
Other number:
1986-8323
Other number type:
accession number
Other number:
Cl.No.333/66
Other number type:
Clapham number
Other number:
NRM 86/41/26
Other number type:
National Railway Museum number
Responsible department/section:
NRM - Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/b7ed1d74-8f8b-3bc7-87ee-83056574432a

Use licence for this record: CC BY

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/b7ed1d74-8f8b-3bc7-87ee-83056574432a, Science Museum Group, CC BY

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