Description

A poster, made for Southern Railway, depicting an on-coming rainstorm over a green pastoral landscape. Text underneath the image reads 'Fresh Air for Health! Ask for programme of "Go as you Please" Cheap Tickets by Southern Railway'

Curatorial note:

This poster suggests that spending time outdoors is beneficial for everyone's health and wellbeing. While this may be true for some people, having a disability can affect our experiences of the outdoors, and it is not always easy or leisurely to go for a ramble outdoors - Amy Thraves-Connor, Curating for Change Fellow at the National Railway Museum

Community curation - written by a member of the Community Co-production group, who has lived experience of disability, D/deafness and/or neurodiveregnce:

“I'm asthmatic, have POTS (postural tachycardia syndrome) and I'm also trans, so I wear a binder and these things interact in ways that sometimes make going outside into ‘fresh air’ kind of difficult. It's like a knock-on effect: binding affects my breathing, which affects my asthma and then not having enough air in my system can also affect my POTS. So really, being out there wouldn’t make me feel that healthy!”