Mick Brownfield
Trains Don’t Stop at St Pancras

Lithograph
100 x 65 cm
Signed in plate

The year is 1980. You get off the train at St Pancras, stars in your eyes, Big Ben, St Paul’s, Tower Bridge almost in sight. You continue your adventure and you set your eyes on Mick Browfield’s futuristic poster ‘Trains don’t stop at St Pancras.’

Brownfield designed this poster to greet and encourage passengers not to end their journey there, but instead to use the Victoria, Metropolitan, Circle, Piccadilly or Northern lines to travel further, perhaps to the West End or into the City. It is visually striking, with each train line emerging out of the arches of the iconic St Pancras station. The poster also features the Underground roundel, positioned in the sky as a sun or satellite, suggesting the universal nature of the Underground. Interestingly, the roundel was also used in this way in by Man Ray in 1938, and by Misha Black and John Barker in 1947.