Tracks Collection (page 6)

Business street in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia
Passer Besar (Pasar Besar, large market), a business street in Surabaya (Soerabaja, Soerabaia), East Java, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). Date: circa 1908

Town square, Tjontong, Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia
Town square (Aloon Aloon), Tjontong, Surabaya (Soerabaja, Soerabaia), East Java, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). Date: circa 1908

Southend express train, London, Tilbury & Southend Railway
Southend express train, on the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway. Date: circa early 20th century

Steam locomotive at Scout Green, near Tebay, Cumbria, well known for its steep gradient. circa 1960s

Steam engines near service shed, Exeter St David s
Steam engines outside a service shed at Exeter St David s, Devon. circa 1960s

Kadugannawa Railway Station, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Aerial view (from Dawson Tower), Kadugannawa Railway Station, Kandy District, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1930

A Car on Lumley Beach, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa. Date: circa 1920s

Giant Powder Works, Point Pinole, California, USA
Giant Powder Works, an explosive powder (gunpowder) manufacturing company in Point Pinole, Richmond, California, USA. Date: circa 1892

Southern Railway Firemen
Firefighters working for Southern Railway spray water onto the roof of a train. Southern Railway employed eighty A.F.S. men in order to fight fires caused by Luftwaffe incendiary bombs. 1940

View of Kumasi, Ghana, Gold Coast, West Africa
View of Kumasi, including part of the railway station, Ghana, Gold Coast, West Africa. Date: circa 1915

Bridges over Nahr al-Kalb (El Kelb), Lebanon
Railway and road bridges at Nahr al-Kalb (El Kelb) estuary, Lebanon. Nahr al-Kalb (meaning dog river ) runs from Mount Lebanon near Beirut to the Mediterranean Sea. Date: circa 1910

Halesowen railway station, Dudley, West Midlands. Date: circa 1910

Railway construction at Belemedik, Turkey -- part of the Berlin-Baghdad railway. Date: circa 1915

Sawfar (Sofar), Lebanon
Sawfar (Sofar) with the Donna Maria Sursock Mansion built circa 1909 on the right - Mount Lebanon (Liban) Governate, Lebanon. Date: circa 1910

Velodrome and city of Luanda, Angola, West Africa
Velodrome and city of Luanda, capital of Angola, Portuguese West Africa. Date: circa 1910s

Aerial view of General Motors factory, South Africa
Aerial view of a General Motors factory in South Africa (possibly in Port Elizabeth), for the manufacture of Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick, Cadillac, Vauxhall, Opel, Bedford and GMC vehicles

New Moshi railway station, Tanga Moshi line, East Africa
New Moshi railway station, at the end of the Tanga Moshi line, East Africa (now in Tanzania). 1916

Father Christmas in a train on a Victorian scrap
Father Christmas in a train full of presents on a Victorian scrap. circa 1890s

People at a comic sports event in a field
People taking part in a comic sports event in a field, which involves each man being blindfolded and apparently guided by a woman with a piece of string. Date: circa 1910s

WW1 - British Tadpole Tank
WW1 - British Mark IV tank, also known as the Tadpole. The Mark IV was first used in mid 1917 at the Battle of Messines Ridge. It remained in official British service until the end of the War

Steam locomotive, The Flying Dutchman
Steam locomotive 70018, The Flying Dutchman, pulling the Red Dragon express. Date: circa 1960s

Lemming footprints on snow (Lemmus sibiricus). tundra of Taimyr peninsula, Kara sea shore, winter. Russian Arctic, Siberia, Russia. Lemmings spend winter under deep snow and rarely appear on surface

BAOBAB / Boab trees - At sunset. Madagascar

Lemmings footprints on snow surface, typical track of a lemming in winter tundra. (Lemmus sibiricus ). winter tundra of Taimyr peninsula, Kara sea shore, North of Siberia, Russian Arctic

Grass Snake - snake track goes along human track - desert - sand dunes (Natrix natrix). Caspian sea shore - near Krasnovodsk town - Turkmenistan. Spring - April

Model of a WW1 tank, Trench Art

Allied soldiers on small ammunition train, WW1
Allied soldiers riding on a small ammunition train on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

White City greyhound racing advertisement, 1938
Advertisement for the Greyhound Derby held at White City stadium track on 25 June 1938. Don t miss greyhound racings greatest classic. 1938

Men pushing car on wet beach
A group of men pushing a car on a wet, sandy beach

Karachi, Pakistan - Section of the Passenger Pier
Manora Point, Karachi Harbour, Pakistan - Section of the Passenger Pier. Note the Time Ball on top of the Church Tower, which signalled a certain point in the ball. Date: circa 1908

WW2 - Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps in France
WW2 - British Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps in France - shown here building railway sidings. Date: 1942

Gazi, Ankara, Turkey - Railway Station. A wonderful mid-1920s Station displaying a variety of Architectural styles - opened by Kemal Ataturk in 1926

Train Ferry between Harwich and Zeebrugge
The Train Ferry - Boat service between Harwich, Essex, England and Zeebrugge, Belgium. Inaugurated in 1924. Date: circa 1930

Queen Street, Oxford, England - some very fine examples of shop advertisements and various forms of signage in evidence. Date: circa 1910s

El Salvador - Santa Ana - Railway Station and Train yard
El Salvador - Santa Ana (the second largest city in the country) - Railway Station and Train yard. Date: 1912

Debris following Llanelli railway strike riots, Wales
Newspapers strewn over the railway lines, with a train in the background wrecked by rioters during the railway strike, during which nine people were killed

Austrian troops leaving by train for the front, WW1
Austrian troops leaving by train for the front during the First World War, with friends and family waving goodbye. Date: 1914-1918

Russian heavy field artillery, WW1
Russian heavy field artillery during the First World War, with a curved set of tracks laid on the ground for manoeuvrability. Date: 1914-1918

US Army building the Panama Canal, Central America
The US Army taking part in the building of the Panama Canal, linking the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Date: early 20th century

Killen-Strait armoured tractor, WW1
A Killen-Strait armoured tractor, claimed to be the first completed British tank used during the First World War. Date: 1915

Testing the Bascule Bridge, Carmarthen, South Wales
Testing the Carmarthen Bascule Bridge at Carmarthen, Dyfed, South Wales. The bridge was built to carry the Great Western Railway over the River Towy

Repairing pit props, Plas y Coed Level, South Wales
A miner repairing pit props in the Plas y Coed Level, South Wales

Woman walking along a disused railway track
A woman walking along a disused railway track which has become overgrown with weeds

Driving two horses down a snowy lane
A farmer sits side-saddle as he rides/drives two working carthorses down a country lane in the middle of winter. Watercolour painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Country lane in winter, with two flying swans
A snow-covered country lane in winter, with two flying swans

Ufos / Dewilde, Quarouble
During the great French wave, Marius De Wilde, a railway signalman, sees a UFO on the tracks, with two occupants

Ufos / Quarouble, France
At Quarouble (Nord) Marius Dewilde sees UFO landed on railway tracks and has close encounter with bizarre aliens

Railway station at Hailsham, East Sussex
Aerial view of the deserted railway station at Hailsham, East Sussex, closed on 8 September 1968 as part of the Beeching railway cuts. The last passenger train left the station in May 1968

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