A suitably Autumnal mountain range, for Snowdonia, full of browns and with the rather perilous track perched on top.
A close up view of the engine, pushing the carriages up the steep incline, appears on Gallaher "Trains Of The World" (1937) 23/48. The text on that tells us that "The Snowdon Mountain Railway is the only mountain railway in Great Britain and was modelled on the rack railways of Switzerland"
This National Park covers 823 square miles, and contains the highest mountain (Snowdon) and the largest natural lake (Llyn Tegid, or Bala Lake). And if you thought the Welsh language was dying out shame on you, for of the many hundreds of people who live and work within the boundaries of the National Park, over half speak Welsh.
There were actually five versions of this set, and we are using the earliest version of them as the home page, to which all the other versions will be connected through links. That was our Card of the Day for the 13th of September 2024.
Our version first appears in our original Churchman reference book, (RB.10, issued in 1948), as ;
69. June 1938. 48. HOLIDAYS IN BRITAIN. (titled series). Size 2 7/10" x 2 1/10" or 68 x 53 m/m. Numbered 1/48. Views, no maps. Fronts printed by 4-colour half tone process. Backs in dark green, with descriptions, album clause, and I.T.C. Clause. Printed by Mardon, Son & Hall.
Do note that there is another version of our set too, listed as "70. 48. HOLIDAYS IN BRITAIN. Identical to (69) but omitting album and I.T.C. Clause. Overseas issue".
Our original World Tobacco Issues Index splits these up - our version being in Section 2, "Issues with I.T.C. Clause" described as :
HOLIDAYS IN BRITAIN. Md. Views only. Coloured. Nd. (48) ... C82-52
whilst you have to go to Section 3 for the export issues, without the album or I.T.C. clauses, which were issued between 1937 and 1939 through B.A.T. in Channel Islands, Malta, and British Garrisons overseas. The listing there is identical to the above, save for a new code, of C82-95.
All this text is the same in our updated World Tobacco Issues Index, (though the codes have changed - to C504-510 for the Home Issues, and C504-750 for the export ones. Curiously there is no link to section 3 from section 2, or any mention of there being export issues in any of those books. Casual browsers may, therefore, miss these overseas versions entirely.