Poster, London Midland & Scottish Railway, The Irish Mail at Holyhead, by Norman Wilkinson, c1925. Night time scene of S.S. Cambria in dock with train in platform alongside. Text: For 89 years the Irish Mail has been an institution in Anglo-Irish transportation. This train is a link with the days when the New Holyhead Mail Coach ran from "The Swan with Two Necks" in London by way of Birmingham and Shrewsbury to "The Eagle and Child" at Holyhead. That Jouney took 27 hrs and today the Irish Mail's schedule from Euston to Holyhead is 5hrs 20mins. At Holyhead the mails anre transferred to a 3,400-ton Steamer. There are only a few faster merchant vessels in the world. But nevertheless, she is a direct descendant of the little packet with the tall funnel and frail paddles which in Feb. 1850 was 15hrs in mighty seas between Holyhead and Kingstown bringing the Irish Mail to Dublin. Other ids. ERO 53331. Format: quad royal. Dimensions: 40 x 50 inches, 1016 x 1270mm.
