Infrastructure Collection

BP employee opening the flow valves
A British Petroleum employee opens the flow valves of an oil plant in the Middle East (likely to have been in Iraq or Iran)

Streamlined Rock Island Rocket - American train
Streamlined Rock Island Rocket of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad - Innovative (and futuristic) American diesel-electric passenger locomotive design built by the Budd Company

Abandoned rural branch line signal box, Worcestershire, England. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd

London School Board
LSB offices on the Thames Embankment, London. circa 1870. Between 1870 and 1904, the LSB was the single largest educational provider in London and the infrastructure

Turkey. Kanuni Sultan Suleyman bridge. Buyukcekmece
Ottoman Empire. Turkey. Kanuni Sultan Suleyman bridge or Buyukcekmece Bridge. Buyukcekmece, near Istanbul. It was built by Sinan on a commission from Selim II, 16th century

Concrete bridge across the Clyde in Glasgow. The bridges built here was the second concrete bridge in the world, and first in the UK. The first image showing the extensive amount of scaffolding

Traffic on Brighton Road
A section of Brighton Road, busy with traffic. Widening operations were in progress at the time. Date: 1933

c. 1880s Egypt Cairo - sail boat on the river Nile
c.1880s Egypt Cairo - sail boat on the river Nile

Egypt - boats on the River Nile and bridge Cairo
c.1890s Photochrome Egypt - boats on the River Nile and bridge Cairo

Photochrome Egypt - bridge across the Nile Cairo
c.1890s Photochrome Egypt - bridge across the Nile Cairo

Road painters carrying broken white line stencil, Sept 1939
Road painters carrying the " blackout stencil" which enabled workmen to paint broken white lines down the centre of roads with ease, in order to reduce accidents when driving in blackouts

Bus conductor collecting fares from queuers, September 1939
London bus conductor collecting fares from passengers as they queue in the street in order to maximise efficiency. The reduction of bus services largely due to spirit rationing led to heavy queueing

Queueing due to reduced bus services, September 1939
Heavy queues in London due to reduced bus services to save fuel in times of spirit rationing, particularly in the mornings as people made their way to work

Londoners travelling to work amid wartime delays 1939
Londoners photographed as they travel after experiencing delays due to air raid warnings. The Sphere describes " three hours suburban traffic" but reports that " by 9.30 and 10 a.am

New Coal Pier No. 9, Newport News, Virginia, USA
C&O Railway Companys New Coal Pier No. 9, Newport News, Virginia, USA. Date: circa 1915

Postcard booklet, Morris Sheppard Lake and Dam, Texas, USA
Postcard booklet, aerial view of Morris Sheppard Lake and Dam near Mineral Wells, Texas, USA. Date: 1942

Spain. Tarragona. Roman aquaduct
Devils Bridge Aqueduct. 2nd c. SPAIN. Tarragona. Also known as Ferreres Acqueduct or Devils Bridge (Pont del Diable), 217 m. long and 26 m. high. Roman art. Early Empire. Architecture

India - Railway Station at Mhow. Mhow is in the Indore District in Madhya Pradesh, India. Date: circa 1910s

Road making on Praslin Island, Seychelles
Road making on Praslin Island, part of Dr N P Jewells remit in the Seychelles, Indian Ocean. 1912-1914

Araya, Lebanon - The Railway Station
Chouit Araya, Mount Lebanon, Baabda District - The Railway Station Date: circa 1910s

Opening of the Railway by King Faisal I of Iraq

Tembi Pumping Station
A new BP oil pumping station was erected in the early 1920s on the left bank of the Tembi River in Iran to separate it from the main power station for the oil fields on the other bank

Water and Electricity Works, Eksjo, Jonkoping, Sweden. Date: circa 1904

Electricity Sub-Station (Plant) and Water Tower - Khartoum, Sudan. Date: circa 1910

Communist China - scene in Jan an
Landscape in Yan an in Shaanxi Province, with marching people and three red flags during the Cultural Revolution era in Communist China

A night train stopped by a snow drift in Northern England or Scotland, This portion of the country has been laid under snow to the depth of, in some places, ten or twelve feet. 1858

Damaged bridge on a river crossing, probably in Germany after the Second World War. Date: circa 1946

Bailey bridge near Rhine crossing, Germany, in the immediate postwar period. Date: circa 1946

Italian missionary pipe layers, Kenya, East Africa
Italian missionary industrial pipe layers, Kenya, East Africa. Date: circa 1910s

Prehistory. Paleolithic. Spain. Archaeologcal site of Atapuerca. Railway Trench. It provides the oldest hominid fossils found so far on the Iberian Peninsula

Railway line disappearing into the distance. Date: 1970s

Works of Metropolitan District Railway on Thames Embankment
Works of the Metropolitan District Railway on the Thames Embankment at Westminster, London, in 1869. Date: 1969

Panama Canal Being Built. The Illustrated London News. (1888). Engraving

Sevilla (19th c. )
Sevilla (19th c.). Panorama from Triana district. Lithography by Duruy. Litography. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Museo Nacional del Romanticismo

Gran Teatre del Liceu
SPAIN. Barcelona. Gran Teatre del Liceu. View of the Auditorium from the stage after being rebuilt. The theater suffered a fire in 1994

Baghdad Railway Station, Iraq - WWI era Date: circa 1917

Russo-Japanese War - Field Telegraph Office at Liaoyang and field telegraph lines under construction. Date: 1904

Jean Bourrat - caricature by Moloch
Jean Bourrat (1859-1909) - French Politician - in charge of the administration of roads and bridges from 1879 to 1896, as well as the construction of railway lines in France

Saudi Arabia - Taif-Bishah Road - Shomrock Bridge Date: 1976

Railway Station at at Manisa, Turkey
Turkey - Railway Station at Manisa (Magnesia du Sypile) on a cold winters day, close to Izmir, Turkey Date: circa 1908

Doullens, France - Gasworks
Doullens, France - The Gasworks Date: circa 1910s

Railway Station at Nogales, Sonora, Mexico
Pacific Mexico Railway Station at Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. Date: 1936

Chile - The Malleco Viaduct
Chile - Collipulli - The Malleco Viaduct, a railway bridge passing over the Malleco River valley at the south entrance of Collipulli in the Araucania Region

Bapaume approach WWI
Road between Bapaume and Arras on the Western Front during World War I

Co-ordination of Transport Service in South Africa
The co-ordination of the transport services in South Africa - rail, road and air travel. A pictures priaisng the infrastructure advances of the Union of South African States

A Trainee Signalman
A trainee signalman operates the junctions on a model railway as part of his training. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Laying Railway Tracks
Three construction workers guide a large rail into position. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Guildhall Aldermen
The Court of Aldermen, part of Londons municipal infrastructure that you probably never knew about

Egypt - Fresh Water Reservoirs - Port Said

Rail Construction 1836
An extensive team of navvies build a retaining wall near Part Street, Camden Town, London

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