The September 1929 timetable, published by a Brașov company named Hermes, with a shoe polish ad on the front cover, is the first one in the collection to exhibit proper table design, and I would argue it's pretty good-looking (on the inside). The immediately striking thing about it is its multilinguality - Romanian is accompanied by Hungarian, German or both almost everywhere - except for place names, where even the all-Hungarian ads littering the Transylvania pages are, with a couple exceptions, careful to use the official, Romanian ones. The only exception is the publisher note, which gives three names for Brașov (and two names for the company's Hungarian director, using the same trick as some Chinese do of putting the surname between both names, such that each reads properly in its native order)… And also, after the station index, four pages are devoted to an index of old Hungarian and German station names pointing to the "new" Romanian equivalents. *Before* the station index was… an index of "important weekly markets", added due to "requests from merchant travelers". There is also a small international part.
A description of page 103: The first page of table 61 (București-Timișoara-Jimbolla), labeled as "61 a" (București-Costești) - in the Hermes timetables, each page of the long tables that would become a characteristic of Romania's timetable books was given its own subtable number, which would've been handier if those were indicated on the included map. A couple of train categories (named trains, like the Simplon-Orient-Express portrayed, were considered a category) can be seen, and everything is set in fairly good-looking type. The spiral symbols in the row under the train numbers indicate through carriages, the equal signs - through trains (trains continuing beyond the end of the table).
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