Express Collection

The Flying Scotsman
The London and North Eastern Railways Flying Scotsman express, hauled by the 4-6-2 Pacific Papyrus locomotive

Southern Railway Express
A Southern Railway express is hauled by a West Country locomotive

Cornish Riviera Train
The Great Western Railways Cornish Riviera express is hauled by a King class locomotive beside the sea

Cambrian Coast Express
The Cambrian Coast Express steam locomotive train, at Llanbadarn crossing, near Aberystwyth, Wales

Adlestrop Railway Station, Gloucestershire
The railway station at Adlestrop, Gloucestershire. Station staff stand on the platform while the Paddington-Worcester Express steams towards the station

French Line CGT Poster showing the Normandie cruise ship travelling from Southampton to New York, advertising an express luxury service on both the Ile de France and the Normandie

The Brighton Belle
The Southern Railways electric pullman express, the Brighton Belle between London and Brighton

Orient Express train in a rural setting
The Orient Express - countryfolk stop to watch the express go by

Hampstead & Highgate Express sign in Hampstead, London, next to a street lamp, left of picture. The building is on Perrin?s Court Hampstead NW3

The Cornishman Express
The Cornishman express of the Great Western Railway carries passengers from London to Cornwall (and back again if required)

The beehive terminal building at Gatwick Airport in 1937. de Havilland DH86 Express Air Liner, G-ADEA, of British Airways, flies past. Date: 1937

Great Western Train
An express train of the Great Western Railway

The Brighton Belle 2
The Brighton Belle, Southern Railways electric pullman express, running between London and Brighton

The Ghost Train, travel on the thrills and laughter line
The Ghost Train, Do you feel like Nothing on Earth? Then there is an Express reason why you should see The Ghost Train with a real Bogey

Colchester Railway Station - G. E. R. Express Train
Colchester Railway Station - G.E.R. Express Train Date: circa 1903

Pan American Airways route map
Pan American Airways System global route map of the Flying Clipper Ships (passengers, mail, express). circa 1938

The Tyne-Tees Pullman passenger service. The famous express of the North East Region running from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne to London Kings Cross. Date: late 1930s

Cover design, Aero Espresso Italiana timetable, with scenes of Rhodes and Athens. Serving Brindisi, Athens, Rhodes and Istanbul. 1932

Western Airways Ltd Poster
Poster, Norman Edgar Western Airways Ltd, Bristol to Cardiff Air Express, 15 minutes, 9 shillings and sixpence single fare

Western Airways Poster
Poster, Norman Edgar (Western Airways) Ltd, showing prices and times from Bristol to various destinations by Air Express Daily, including special day returns. 20th century

New Empire State Express train
Poster advertising the Empire State Express steam train of the New York Central System as it speeds across the American landscape

Orient Express in Snow
The Simplon-Orient Express train, snowbound at the village station of Cherkeskoy, sixty miles from its final destination, Constantinople (Istanbul)

Allan Line to Canada poster
Poster advertising the weekly express service to and from Canada with the Allan Line Company. The ships also appear to deliver Royal Mail aswell

Euston Locomotive Sheds
Express locomotives stabled in the engine sheds at Euston Station

The Great Western Railway service from Penzance
The inaugural trip of the Great Western Railway service from Penzance. The new express service, which shortens the journey by forty minutes

The Cornish Riviera Express, circa 1930
The Cornish Riviera Express hauled by King George V, a locomotive of the Great Western Railway. Date: c. 1930

D. B. Wyndham-Lewis
Dominic Bevan Wyndham-Lewis (1891 - 1969), British writer, editor and biographer. Contributor to the Daily Express, The Bystander and the News Chronicle

1883 / Skye Crofters / Paget
Skye crofters express their grievances in Glendale Church

The Cromer Express of the Great Eastern Railway carries its passengers into East Anglia

Continental Boat Express
The (rear of) the double-headed Continental Boat Express train at Folkestone, Kent, England, the Southern terminal for the short sea route to Boulogne and Calais, France

Orient Express
Catching the Orient Express in the year 2000

West Country Express
Southern Railways West Country express drawn by the locomotive Exeter

The DRG Class SVT 877 Hamburg Flyer sometimes also Flying Hamburger or in German Fliegender Hamburger was Germanys first fast diesel train

LNER Class P2 No. 2001 Cock o the North with a London to Aberdeen express by C.T. Howard

Cocktail bar on the Flying Scotsman
The cocktail bar for third class passengers on the Flying Scotsman. Date: 1933

Britains Brabazon I passenger aircraft by G. H. Davis
A Leviathan of the skies: Britains Brabazon I airliner, designed to carry 72 long-distance passengers. A mammoth aerial express able to cover the England-Australia route in 48 hours

Newspaper front cover: evacuation of Dunkirk, 1940
" Through an inferno of bombs and shells, the B.E.F is crossing the Channel from Dunkirk-in historys strangest armada

The R. M.s Empress of Ireland
The R.M.S Empress of Ireland, and Oceanic Liner of the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company. On the 29th May, 1914, she collided with a Norwegian collier and sank in the Saint Lawrence River

Ad for the Flying Scotsman
Advertisment for the Flying Scotsman, express train running between Kings Cross, London, to Edinburgh, Scotland. 1931

Newcastle upon Tyne Railway Crossing - Castle - Tyne Bridge
Newcastle upon Tyne Railway Crossing (then the largest crossing of its type in the world) Newcastle Castle and distant misty view of the Tyne Bridge (which opened in 1928). Date: circa 1930

Soho, London - 26 Frith Street W1 - Oxford Express Dairy (Welsh Dairy). 1973

Advertisment for Simplon-Orient Express, Taurus Express
Advertisement for the Simplon-Orient Express and the Taurus Express. The advertisement shows the route between London and Istanbul and also the routes from Haydarpasha (Istanbul) to Cairo

College Farm, Finchley, North London -- entrance to Express Dairy Co, Teas and Refreshments. Date: circa 1900s

London, Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS), Scotch Express
London, Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS), Scotch express up train passing over the water troughs at Brock, Railway supplement, 1925, p.62a Date: 1925

Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway, Eskdale, Cumbria
Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway, Eskdale, near Gosforth, Cumbria, England. A Light Express Train Date: 1910s

American Express Train (19th c. ). Litography
American Express Train (19th c.). Litography

Nord Air Express Poster
Nord Air Express Air France - Sabena Poster, the direct route for Scandinavia, with a map showing routes between cities. 20th century

The Arrival of the Indian Mail at Folkestone, 1844
Engraving showing the Mail ship entering Folkestone Harbour, with the Express Train standing by to receive the mail and take it to London

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