Platform Collection (page 19)

Well-Dressing, Buxton
Well-dressing at Buxton (with an early example of a platform roundabout)

Exhibition at Madame Tussauds, London
An exhibition of waxwork models at Madame Tussauds in Marylebone Road, London

Meeting at Trafalgar
An election meeting at Trafalgar Square

Interior, Victoria Station, London
The new Victoria Station at Pimlico - an interior view of the terminus when it had just opened in Central London

People Boarding a Train
People boarding a train

Thomas Edison / Ilz / Train
THOMAS ALVA EDISON American inventor in 1929 at Dearborn, Michigan with Henry Ford, Mr Black (engineer), Mrs Edison and President Hoover

Danton / Duplessi-Bertaux
GEORGES JACQUES DANTON French Revolutionary leader, with a scene from The Terror below

Edward Vii / Iln 1900
Edward, Prince of Wales, attacked on the station platform at Brussels on his way to Cologne, by an anarchist named Sipido

Sheltering on Platform
Sheltering from the risk of German air raids, Londoners sleep wherever they can on the platform at Elephant & Castle underground station

City of London Warehouse
Packages are raised and lowered using pulleys at a warehouse in the City of London

The Signal Fire
A girl on a high rocky platform lights a fire to warn someone that it is either safe or unsafe to do what they are thinking of doing or not doing

Rep on Platform
A elegant commercial traveller stands waiting as a train moves along the platform

White Platform Sandals
A close-up photograph of feet in a pair of white platform sandals

New York Subway / 1909
A Train-despatcher

Edison Landing Platform
The landing platform that Thomas Alva Edison envisaged for his flying machines

Workmens Train Baker St
The scene at Baker Street underground station, seven years after the opening of the Metropolitan Line; the Workmens special train carried men to work at special low fares

Baker Street Station Cross-section
A cross section of the proposed Baker Street station, on the new Metropolitan underground railway, London

Portland Road Station
On the platform at Portland Road station, London

Roman Testudo / Sieges
The TESTUDO (tortoise), a Roman siege technique using overlapping shields, giving protection from arrows and boiling oil, and serving as a platform to raise attackers

Buddhist Pagoda, Burma
Burmese women at prayer on the platform of the pagoda at Prome, Lower Burma

Society of Rail Servants
A wonderfully illustrated commemorative certificate, conferring the rail workers of Market Rasen into membership of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants

At a French Station
Waiting for the train on a French station platform - a porter copes with luggage, a young woman is taking goods to market

The Train Arrives
On a railway platform a boy point out an approaching train, just in case his sisters haven t noticed it

Waiting at York
Passengers wait for their train on the majestically curved platform of York station

Diving Platform 1890S
Swimmers make use of a diving platform on wheels, placed just off the shore

Birmingham Station
Passengers move towards the L.M.S. London Express, as it approaches the platform at Birmingham station

Passengers on Platform
A group of rail passengers stand on a platform with their luggage before boarding the Golden Arrow luxury train from London-Dover-Calais

LAZY-TONGS FIRE-ESCAPE
Lazy-tongs fire escape, a novel idea in which a sliding stage is mounted on an extending trellis-work frame or support

Mid-Ocean Platform
Mid-Ocean Landing Platform for Intercontinental Flights

Goodbye on Platform
A lady waves goodbye to a parting train, a porter handles luggage, the station master surveys his platform with proprietorial watchfulness

Feminine Shorts 1930S
How to wear shorts & still retain ones femininity: printed linen culottes with cummerbund & bolero worn with wedge heeled strappy sandals over ankle socks

Boarding a Steam Train
People board a steam train waiting in the station

Charlie Chaplin 1931
English silent film star and director, CHARLIE CHAPLIN (1889-1977), arriving in London to attend the British premiere of his film City Lights (1931)

Travelling Actors
Actors, part of a travelling theatre company, performing their comedy (or mime) routine on a platform in the middle of a field

Registry Office Wedding
A small wedding party wait outside a registry office in Cheshire, England, presumably waiting for the bride and groom to turn up

Platform Ticket
Platform ticket issued by British Rail at Victoria Station, London, entitling the purchaser to go onto the platform of their choice, but not to travel on a train

Devils Bridge Station
A platform sign at Devils Bridge railway station, Wales, terminus of the Vale of Rheidol Railway from Aberystwyth

1st Republican Convent
The first Republican Convention Held " Under the Oaks" at Jackson, Michigan. A large crowd has gathered to hear the speakers who are raised up on a stage

Paris Metro Station
Passengers wait for a train on the platform of a Paris metro station

Navvies working at Upminster Station, Havering
Navvies at work on the line at Upminster Station in the London Borough of Havering, Greater London, not far from the border with Essex

Futuristic device to help a gentleman get dressed
A futuristic device to help a gentleman get dressed in the automatic home of the future. At the press of a button, a mechanical arm holds out his suit, top hat and walking stick

Stopping the train at Woodford, Australia
A female passenger raises a signal to stop the train at Woodford, Australia

Last train from Charing Cross, Central London
Passengers - many of them evidently theatregoers - await the last train of the day out of Charing Cross, Central London

Crowded platform, South Western Railway station
Passengers crowd the platform of a station of the South Western Railway

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