Passenger Collection (#53)

The Sphere magazine absorbs Black and White
A newspaper boy selling copies of The Sphere and The Tatler (sister titles from the same group) to a man on a train. The photograph was promoting the fact that The Sphere had successfully absorbed

Steam locomotive engine 61236, with carriages. Date: circa early 1960s

The Devonian at Bristol Temple Meads station
The Devonian steam locomotive 45685, waiting at Bristol Temple Meads station on 19 September 1962, on the Paignton to Bradford route. Date: 1962

Young girl at an airport, with a Swissair passenger plane out on the runway. Date: circa 1970s

New South Wales Australia P class steam train
A New South Wales Australia P class, possibly travelling through the Blue Mountains, Australia. Date: circa 1910

Harbour scene, Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America
Harbour scene at Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America, with people and carriages on the quayside and vessels on the water in the distance. Date: circa 1908

Fun on the Midland
Promotional postcard for Fun on the Midland, a revue show by Dick Thomas and Lincoln Taylor. Thomas and Taylor toured with this music hall act in the early twentieth century

Scene at an airport, with passengers and aircraft (operated by British United Airways and BKS). circa 1960s

Nursery on board MV Christiaan Huygens ocean liner
Nursery on board the MV Christiaan Huygens Dutch ocean liner, later used as a troopship during WW2. Date: circa 1933

American Sight-Seeing Car and Coach Co, USA
Advertising leaflet, American Sight-Seeing Car and Coach Co, USA. offering trips in New York, Washington and Philadelphia

Train passing through Coryton Cove, Dawlish, Devon. Date: circa 1980s

Sir Hugh Lane (1875-1915), art dealer best known for establishing the Municipal Gallery for Modern Art in Dublin in 1908. Died tragically when on board the Lusitania which was torpedoed by a German

Aero Cable, Niagara Falls, New York State, USA
Aero Cable (aerial cable car, built 1916) with passengers, Niagara Falls, New York State, USA. Date: circa 1920

Poster advertising Air-India International, with scenes of London. Date: circa 1955

Cunard White Star Queen Elizabeth Liner Launch Booklet
Cunard White Star Queen Elizabeth Liner / Ship Launch Booklet. Date: 1938

Brochure for Beechams Pills - Empire Air Tour. Date: 1930

Mississippi River landing, Mississippi, USA
Mississippi River landing at Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA, with two steamboats, the Belle of Calhoun (left) and the Belle of the Bends (right). Date: circa 1905

Elegant Lady passenger awaiting her flight on the airfield - her biplane aircraft awaits behind. Date: 1920s

Sky Scrapers by Howard K. Elcock
A man in a natty dressing gown shaves in front of a mirror over a sink of steaming, soapy water in a plane high above the skyscrapers of Manhattan. Date: 1929

Handley Page biplane, Imperial Airways, Croydon
Handley Page W.8B biplane, RMA Princess Mary, belonging to Imperial Airways. Seen here at Croydon Aerodrome. Date: circa 1925

Rickshaw scene made from used postage stamps, China. Date: circa 1905

HMTS Dunera, passenger steamer, also used as a troop ship. Date: circa 1900

Three people in a biplane on an airfield. Date: circa 1930s

Boy scouts boarding a railway train
Boy scouts and others boarding a railway train. Date: circa 1930s

Two women on railway station platform
Two women on a railway station platform. Date: circa 1930s

Queen of the Channel steamer
Queen of the Channel passenger steamer. Date: circa 1930s

WW1 - French air reconnaisance, 1914
WW1 - French air-scouts on a Breguet biplane. A Sergeant of Engineers is piloting, one passenger is observing the country below, the other throws out a cylindrical case containing a message

KOMTA passenger triplane, 1922 1924

Passenger pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius, extinct.. Handcolored engraving on steel by William Lizars from a drawing by Edward Lear from Sir William Jardines Naturalists Library: Ornithology, Pigeons

Canadian one-horse wagon with passengers and driver with pipe.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Steam locomotive, The Elizabethan
Steam locomotive 60028, The Elizabethan, Walter K Whigham. Date: circa 1960s

Settle-Carlisle Railway - Passenger Train, Blea Moor, Yorksh
Settle-Carlisle Railway - Passenger Train, Blea Moor, near Dent/Horton in Ribblesdale, Yorkshire, England. Date: 1970s

Settle-Carlisle Railway - Water Crane & Passenger Train, Blea Moor, near Dent/Horton in Ribblesdale, Yorkshire, England. Date: 1970s

The Quay, Weymouth, Dorset, England. Showing Great Western Railway Saddle-tank Locomotive with Coaches & Passenger Ship Date: 1933

LNER steam locomotive, Sir Ralph Wedgwood
LNER steam locomotive, with coal truck and passenger carriages, 60006, Sir Ralph Wedgwood. Date: circa 1960s

Steam locomotive, the County of Oxford
Steam locomotive, with coal truck and passenger carriages, 1023, the County of Oxford. Date: circa 1960s

Cheltenham Spa Express steam train
The Cheltenham Spa Express steam train, drawn by locomotive steam engine 012, The Gloucestershire Regiment. Date: 1960s

Cornish Riviera Express steam train
The Cornish Riviera Express steam train, running between London and Penzance, drawn by locomotive 7916. Seen here passing a signal box. circa 1960s

Torbay Express diesel train
The Torbay Express diesel train, which ran from London Paddington to the West Country, drawn by locomotive 332. Seen here near Paignton, Devon

Steam locomotive near Lavenham, Suffolk
Steam locomotive and passenger carriages alongside a signal box near Lavenham, Suffolk. Date: circa 1960s

Torbay Express steam train
The Torbay Express steam train, which ran from London Paddington to the West Country, drawn by locomotive 4970, Sketty Hall. Date: circa 1960s

Passenger Excursion - Grace Darling Lifeboat, Southend on Sea, Essex, England. Date: 1916

Elegant Edwardian couple with child outside house
A photograph of James Johnson Battersby and his wife Nancy (nee Nidd) on the steps of their house Dunluce in the Davenport area of Stockport. The child is James Larratt Battersby, their son

MS Wanganella, Australian passenger liner that served as a hospital ship during the Second World War. Date: circa 1940s

View on boat, River Rhine, Germany
Ernest Battersby stands facing the camera as a ticket inspector appears to talk to passenger behind him. A typical view of passengers on a Rhine river boat in the Edwardian era. Date: circa 1906

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, manoeuvring down the Clyde
Queen Mary set out on its first voyage, from Clydebank where her interior was fitted out, down the river Clyde to Greenock Scotland

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, passing French liner L Atlantique
Queen Mary Ocean Liner, first journey down the river Clyde. Passing on the way lyng off Greenock was the luxurious ocean liner L Atlantique a French vessel, which was caught on fire in January 1933

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, down the river Clyde
Queen Mary set out on its first voyage, from Clydebank John Browns shipyard where her interior was fitted out, down the river Clyde to Greenock Scotland, escorted by tugs to the sea

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