Train, Bridge, Sea Print

Any printers' details will be a good clue. The language they're in may be the first pointer.

 

Paper size about 10 3/4” x 7 1/2”.

 

Well that's a whole heckuva lot of info! Nice!

 

Yeah, lots to research, Penrose Annual, Rotarprint, Kaye’s, B. Winstone.

 

Rotaprint did offset litho machines - my Pa's company had some. Penrose Annual was a graphic arts review. The fact that it says brochure, implies that this was an image done as an advertisement of some kind.

 

Yorkshire coast railways?

 

Not with that chalk and those trees. I'm still inclined to European: even in the thirties, foreign train travel was being advertised.

 

I was trying to find online scan of the 1940 vol. 42 Penrose Annual but no luck. Some here
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000636913
but no full view from 1940.
Maybe libraries can have it. Courious if they provide any additional information in the Annual.
The train and wagons are not very detailed so I doubt they will give any clue.

 

Geek says generic train, but thinks not British.

 

The closest one to me is about a twelve hour drive, but maybe you'll have better luck:

https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=penrose+annual+1940

 

I could be wrong about this, but.

Seems to me, since this was done for the Penrose Annual, it's intended as a representation of a graphic style rather than a specific place/railway.