Passenger Collection (#63)

Midland and Gw Loco
Midland and Great Western Railway (Ireland) passenger loco no 7 Connemara

Myttons Upturns Gig
English eccentric Jack (John) Mytton (1796-1834) deliberately capsizes a gig by driving it into a rabbit hole in order to scare a nervous passenger

Carriage by Moonlight
English eccentric John Mytton (1796-1834) homeward bound one evening from Doncaster falls asleep while counting his winnings - thus many bank- notes were blown away & lost

Man Smoking on Train
A man wearing round spectacles and smoking a pipe is engrossed in reading a book while he makes his train journey

Passenger Airliner
An artists impression of a passenger air liner of the post-war period : the crew seem to be in gondolas, with interconnecting ladders, while passengers occupy the fuselage

L POOL / M CHESTER RAILWAY
LIVERPOOL TO MANCHESTER RAILWAY Two freight and two passenger trains showing the variety of rolling stock employed on this short but busy line. 1st 2nd and 3rd class carriages shown

Channel Crossing Advert
Cross the Channel in a passenger steamship

People Boarding a Train
People boarding a train

Booking clerk inside a ticket office
Inside the ticket office - the booking clerk serves a passenger, who is paying with a bank note

Red Star Line poster
Poster for the Red Star Line shipping company promoting its passenger liner service between Antwerp, New York, Southampton, Cherbourg and Canada

Cunard USA and Canada poster
Poster advertising the Cunard Line passenger services to America and Canada, destination of many emigrants during the first half of the twentieth century

The Late Arrival
An American passenger, late for her transatlantic liner at Cherbourg, is taken by steamboat to join it, and hoisted aboard with a rope

MAURETANIA 1907
Cunard passenger liner on the transatlantic run

STEAMSHIP NARKUNDA
P & O passenger liner on the Australian run

STEAMSHIP NALDERA
P & O passenger liner on the Australian run

STEAMSHIP MOLDAVIA
P & O passenger liner on the Australian run

STEAMSHIPS / SCYTHIA
Passenger ship of the Cunard line

STEAMSHIP ANDANIA
Passenger liner of the Cunard line, sailing the Atlantic crossing

EMPRESS OF AUSTRALIA
Canadian Pacific passenger ship sailing from Britain to China and Japan

STEAMSHIP TUSCANIA
Anchor Line passenger ship saling between Glasgow and New York

STEAMSHIP CALIFORNIA
Anchor Line passenger ship sailing between Glasgow and New York

GREAT WESTERN STEAMER
One of the first steamships to cross the Atlantic, Brunels paddle-wheel vessel was the first purpose-built passenger liner, making 64 crossings before being broken up in 1856

SCOTIA CUNARDER
The last great ocean-going paddle-wheel steamer, built for the Cunard Line, crossed the Atlantic in 9 days 22 hours : the most magnificent passenger steamer of her day

100-Passenger Air-Liners
Todays air-liners will seem tiny compared with the huge passenger carriers of tomorrow, which will carry as many as One Hundred people, at speeds of 350 km/h !

Aircraft in Storm
The powerful passenger aircraft of the future will be able to fly in all weather conditions, even a desert sandstorm like this

Future Atlantic Liner
Transatlantic passenger liners will be aerodynamically shaped for faster travel. This vessel is based on a project by American designer Norman Bel Geddes

Passenger Takes a Coffee
An attentive Swissair air hostess serves a smart gentleman a cup of coffee

Letter Flown to Liner
A Philadelphia businessman with an urgent letter for a passenger on the outgoing transatlantic liner Olympic has it flown and dropped onto the ships deck

Wright Plane 1908
Wilbur Wright makes a last minute check before taking to the air with a passenger

Liverpool Manchestr Rail
THE LIVERPOOL - MANCHESTER RAILWAY : the departure of the worlds first passenger train, drawn by Stephensons Rocket and with rolling stock resembling road carriages

Forth Bridge
A passenger train can cross the Forth Bridge while maintaining a speed of 90 km/h. Completed in 1890, it is one of the engineering triumphs of its time

Rail in Fraser Canyon
A passenger train of the Canadian Pacific Railway passes through the Grand Canyon of the Fraser River - a remarkable engineering feat

Volturno Ablaze 1913
In a fierce storm, the passenger liner Volturno, on her way from Rotterdam to New York, catches fire : some passengers are rescued

AMERICA ON FIRE 1926
The passenger liner on fire while anchored at Newport, Rhode Island

Staffordshire Steamship
Passenger liner of the Bibby line

Strathnaver Steamship
Passenger liner of the P&O line

Strathmore Steamship
Passenger liner of the P&O line

Tuscania Steamship
Passenger liner of the Anchor Line, plying between England and India, on one occasion carrying the writer of this caption as a small boy

Vandyck Steamship
Passenger liner of the Lamport and Holt company

Orduna Steamship
Passenger liner of the Pacific Steam Navigation company

OLYMPIC STEAMSHIP
Passenger liner of the Cunard line

Newfoundland Steamer
Passenger steamship of the Furness line, preseumably sailing between Britain and Canada

Niagara Steamship
Canadian passenger liner used on the Vancouver to Australia run

STEAMSHIPS / ASTURIAS
Turbine passenger liner of the Royal Mail Lines employed on the South American run

Anchor Line Steamer
A passenger liner of the Anchor Line leaves harbour for India or Australia

Imperial Star Liner
Passenger liner of the Blue Star Line

Homeric Liner
Passenger ship of the Cunard White Star line, sailing from Southampton to New York via Cherbourg

DUCHESS OF RICHMOND
Passenger liner of the Canadian Pacific Line

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