Metro Collection (page 2)

Map, Metropolitan Underground Railway, serving Aldgate, City, Kew Gardens, Richmond and other London locations. 1880

Opening of Chicago Subway for Freight Traffic, 7 July 1905. 1905

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Comic Postcard - Don t try to enter by the Exit Door or you will get Squeezed! - A smart young Gent is trapped neither within or without this packed rush hour District Line London Underground

METRO-VICKERS TRIAL 1933
Russian lawyers confront the British engineer, Thornton, and his secretary, Kutosuova, accusing them of spying and sabotage. Metropolitan-Vickers trial, Moscow, Russia. Date: April 1933

PARIS BUS METRO TICKETS
Second class Paris tickets which can be used on the metro or on buses. Date: unknown

FRENCH TABAC & CAFE FRENCH TABAC & CAFE
The outside of a tobacconists shop and cafe, part of the Hotel du Metro in France Date: 1929

FAST DRINKING
This girl is drinking her coffee while running for the metro : she should take better care of her stomach, thinks the Caisse Primaire Centrale de Securite Sociale Date: 1947

Metroliner - D-CABF
Fairchild SA-227AC Metro III / Metroliner- D-CABF of Nurnberger Flugdienst (NFD) at Bonn

Electric power house for New York subway, Manhattan, USA
Interior of the 59th Street electric power house for the New York subway, Manhattan, USA. Date: 1904

Underground Railroad and Brooklyn Bridge Terminal, NYC, USA
Underground Railroad and Brooklyn Bridge Terminal, New York City, USA. Date: circa 1906

London Underground - District Line - Single Ticket #3042 from 1897 - Victoria to Gloucester Road (Brompton) - 4d - Third Class. Date: 1897

London Underground - Metropolitan Line - Single Ticket #625 from 1895 - Mansion House to Moorgate Street via Mark Lane - 3d - Third Class. Date: 1895

Places of interest on Piccadilly Tube from South Kensington
Places of interest reached by Piccadilly Tube from South Kensington. Date: circa 1910s

The Underground - Dugdale
The Underground - from the picture by T. C. Dugdale, R.O.I Date: 1932

Transcontinental Metro - Travelling Underground between Continents

Chile - Santiago - Plaza Italia, also known as (Metro) Baquedano. This huge roundabout sits in the heart of the city - the equestrian statue shows General Manuel Baquedano (1823-1897)

Platform of Holland Park Underground Station
Central Line Series. A very trendy (and slightly effete) young gentleman stands in very aloof repose, pretending to ignore the glamorous lady to his right

Mumbai, India - The Metro Big Cinema
The Metro Big Cinema - an Art Deco Heritage grade IIA multiplex Movie theatre in Mumbai, India (built in 1938). The main architects were Thomas W. Lamb and D. W. Ditchburn. Date: circa 1950

Lima - Peru - Plaza San Martin. Its central monument gives homage to Perus liberator, Jose de San Martin. Date: circa 1920s

Paris Sacre Coeur
The church stands high on the butte de Montmartre, but you don t have to walk up the hill, theres a funicular to carry you for the price of a metro ticket. Date: circa 1904

Platform of Queens Road Underground Station
Central Line Series. A slightly shifty-looking young man with boater and newspaper keeps a watchful eye on a very glamorous lady strolling along the platform at Queens Road. Date: 1904

Platform of Marble Arch Underground Station
Central Line series. A very pretty girl seated on a bench on the platform of Marble Arch Underground Station is admired from both sides

Platform of Museum Underground Station
Central Line series. A variety of passengers awaiting their train on the platform at Museum - two prim and proper Bloomsbury Spinsters

Platform of Tottenham Court Road Underground Station
Central Line Series. A rather sinister gentleman makes his approach toward a robust, yet innocent young lady in a long red coat on the platform of Tottenham Court Road Underground Station - opened by

Night view from Slussen metro station, Stockholm, Sweden. Date: circa 1936

Theatreland, Durban, Natal Province, South Africa
Theatreland by night, Smith Street, Durban, Natal Province, South Africa. Theatres include the Playhouse and the Metro. circa 1940

Paris - The Metro - Boulevard Pasteur - Les Invalides
Paris - The Elevated Metro line at Boulevard Pasteur and view down Avenue de Breteuil toward Les Invalides. circa 1910s

Music cover, Esther Williams in Bathing Beauty
Music cover, Italian version of a song from the MGM film, Bathing Beauty (Bellezze Al Bagno), starring Esther Williams and Red Skelton

Interior, paris Metro, Francepsd Date: 1980s

Crowd, Paris Metro, France Date: 1980s

Boy on Pris Metro platform with balloon Date: 1980s

Escalators of the Moscow Metro. Date: 1986

Woman police officer on a busy London street
Woman police officer (Alison Blair) on a busy London street, talking to a man near the entrance to an underground station. She is wearing the new style Norman Hartnell uniform, introduced in 1968

Metro Construction
Construction : building the great caisson which will then be sunk to carry trains beneath the Seine at the Place Saint- Michel, in the centre of the city Date: 1906

Building Paris Metro
Building the Metro : sinking the central caisson beneath the Seine Date: 1908

Metro Station
A train arrives at the overground Metro station at the Place de la Bastille Date: 1912

Metro, Construction 1899
Work progresses on the Metro - everyone is asking if it will be ready in time for the 1900 Exposition ? Date: 1899

Cartoon, Female worker on Paris Metro, WW1
Cartoon, A female worker on the Paris Metro, checking a soldiers ticket in a wartime train. Date: 1917

Metro, Station Pasteur
A train leaves the station Pasteur Date: circa 1905

Metro, 1st Class Seating
Interior of a first class coach Date: 1900

Metro, 2nd Class Seating
Interior of a second class coach Date: 1900

Building the Metro
Construction workers building the Opera metro station emerge from the compressed-air caissons in the Avenue de l Opera, in front of the Paris Opera Date: 1903

Cartoon, Metro Gate Closer, WW1
Cartoon, The Metropolitan Anastasie, a woman working in the Paris Metro during the First World War, taking the place of a man who is away fighting

Paris Metro construction Date: 1899

New York City, USA - Herald Square, Broadway and 6th Avenue with elevated railroad (right). Date: circa 1910s

New York City, USA - Bowery and Doubledeck Elevated Railroad Date: circa 1910s

Center Platform Downtown Subway - Chicago, Illinois, USA
The Center Platform Downtown Subway (3500ft long) - Chicago, Illinois, USA. Date: 1950s

New York City, USA, on a New Year postcard, showing the Times Building, the Subway, the Flat Iron Building, and the Soldiers and Sailors Monument. 1906

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