Full steam ahead!! Introduced by Hughie Green, the popular host of 1970's television programme "Opportunity Knocks" and in association with TV Times, this item combined the power of television, advertising and railway preservation. The idea was to encourage families during the school summer holidays of 1974 to visit preserved steam railways while engaging and educating the children, who collected illustrations to stick in the album and learned about the history of railways in Britain at the same time. This naturally had the additional benefit of boosting the sales of the TV Times for the summer period. The album is in good order and intact. The surface of the covers has a slightly grubby appearance, there is some creasing and slight surface wear as would be expected after four decades of use and storage. The album is complete and all the illustrations remain neatly stuck in. However, due to the type of glue used, the reverse sides of the thin paper pages have discoloured. This doesn't detract in any way from the enjoyment of flicking through and reading the album. Quite a rare item and would be ideal for a Railway enthusiast, a collector of television memorabilia or as originally intended as an incentive to visit preserved railways around the country.

Date: c.1974
Author: David Davis (Ed)
Publisher: Independent Television Publications Ltd
Printed in England

Dimensions: 25cm x 17cm