HISTORIC railway posters produced to promote the Lake District made more than £2,000 when they were auctioned at Christie's.

One which shows a view of Scafell and Wastwater by John Edmund Mace fetched £822 and another showing a landscape of North West England by Freda Marston made £940.

Both were commissioned in 1935 by the London, Midland and Scotland Railway Company and were put up on station buildings and platforms to entice people to travel by train to the Lakes.

A poster of the Eden Valley by A J Wilson, commissioned in 1955 for British Railways, London and Midland region, made £329.

The oldest poster, a scene of Ullswater which was jointly commissioned in 1905 by London and North Western Railway and a French rail company and printed in Paris, was not sold.