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Handbills, tickets and so much more... collecting on a budget

Collecting railwayana isn’t solely limited to the expensive locomotive nameplates and signs. Paper ephemera and tickets can be an ideal inexpensive starting point.

Those of us of a certain age will remember buying a platform ticket so as to spend an hour spotting on the local station.

Edmondson platform tickets are available from a well-known online auction site for a pound upwards from a variety of eras. The paper tickets from a

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