In 1950, just two years after taking over most of Britain’s private railways, British Railways issued a series of booklets encouraging people to ride trains to vacation spots in Britain. This one is for hills and moorlands west of London, including the Costwolds, Malverns, Mendips, Quantocks, and Brendon Hills plus Exmoor and Dartmoor.

Click image to download a 4.5-MB PDF of this 12-page booklet.

The watercolor painting on the cover (which is the back cover) is by Jack Merriott (1901-1968), who among other things did many posters for British Railways (scroll down to find the ones by Merriott). A native of London, Merriott was self-taught but became a famous-enough watercolorist that he was elected vice president of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, taught many younger watercolorists, and wrote several books about watercolor painting. Sadly, he died at the age of 67 from injuries sustained in an auto accident.