Platform Collection (page 7)

Wolverhampton Low Level station - 6
Wolverhamton Low Level Railway Station before the site was redeveloped and largely demolished. One of the derelict platforms Date: 1992

Wolverhampton Low Level station - 5
Wolverhamton Low Level Railway Station before the site was redeveloped and largely demolished. Abandoned goods trucks Date: 1992

Wolverhampton Low Level station - 4
Wolverhamton Low Level Railway Station before the site was redeveloped and largely demolished. The ornate booking hall. First published The Independent Date: 1992

Wolverhampton Low Level station - 3
Wolverhamton Low Level Railway Station before the site was redeveloped and largely demolished. Looking at plans for proposed development that never happened Date: 1992

Wolverhampton Low Level station - 2
Wolverhamton Low Level Railway Station before the site was redeveloped and largely demolished. A man on the empty platform beneath the canopy Date: 1992

Platforms 4 and 5 at Reading Station, Berkshire. Date: 1980s

The Railway Station, Fort William, Scotland. Date: 1904

The Interior of Derby Station
Platform 2 in Derby Station. Date: 1911

Londons Farewell to King George VI - Paddington Station
Londons Farewell to King George VI - The Funeral Train about to leave Paddington Station drawn by the Windsor Castle - 15th February, 1952. Date: 1952

Pilot Phil Johnston flying the Hiller VZ-1 Flying Platform at the Hiller Plant in Palo Alto circa 1955. Date: circa 1955

Sierra Leone, West Africa - Raised Shelters - Boy Scarecrows warding off birds in the rice fields. Date: circa 1910s

Romania - Bustenari - Oil Rigs Date: circa 1908

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

Engineering survey using divers - The Trans-Baikal Railway
The Trans-Baikal Railway - a subsidiary of the Russian Railways headquartered in Chita and serving Zabaykalsky Krai and Amur Oblast

LNWR (London & North Western Railway Co. ) - Euston Station
LNWR (London & North Western Railway Co.) - Euston Station - The Special Liner Express Date: 1905

Elephant balancing on one leg, Sir Robert Fossetts Circus
An elephant named Monica, balancing on one leg. She belongs to Sir Robert Fossetts Circus. Date: circa 1960s

Boy sitting on elephant, Sir Robert Fossetts Circus
A boy sitting on the back of an elephant named Monica, who is balancing on one leg. They belong to Sir Robert Fossetts Circus. Date: circa 1960s

WWI Poster, Your King & Country Need You
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, design by Lawson Wood (1878-1957). Your King & Country Need You to Maintain the Honour and Glory of the British Empire

LNER, The Queen of Scots Pullman Express - Kings Cross
Kings Cross Station, London. LNER, " The Queen of Scots " Pullman Express awaiting departure Date: early 1930s

Scene at Salisbury Railway Station
Scene on the platform at Salisbury Railway Station, with a steam train just about to depart. Date: September 1932

Scene of fire at Crowlands Primary School, Romford
Fire at Crowland Road School, in Crowland Road, Tottenham N15. A hydraulic lift in action

Firefighters in action at a fire, VDC House, Wembley
Firefighters rush to put out a fire at VDC House, South Way, Wembley. Showing a turntable ladder and hydraulic platform in operation

LFCDA-LFB Aerial ladder platform (ALP)
The Bronto-Skylift ALP being demonstrated at the Brigade headquarters, Lambeth SE1. This combination of a hydraulic platform

LFCDA-LFB Woolworths fire, Crystal Palace SE19
Fifteen pumps were called to deal with a major blaze in the Woolworths store in Westow Hill, Crystal Palace, that seriously damaged the store

King Prempeh Is humiliation, 1896
" One of the Govenors demands made after the Ashanti rebellion was that King Prempeh should make abject submission in accordance with the native custom

The Trench-to-Town Express by A. C. Michael
A busy scene at Victoria Station, London during 1915 showing a soldiers train bringing officers and men on furlough (leave) from the war zone to home

Ancient Footwear / Diderot
A selection of ancient and not so ancient footwear including various styles of sandal (possibly Greek & Roman), also over-shoes & what looks like a shoe of the C16th (fig.25)

Comic postcard, Mother and daughter at station
Comic postcard, Mother giving her daughter advice as she is about to leave on a train Date: 20th century

Kazakh yurt on a wheeled platform. 20th century

Incidents including train-wrecking: General Strike 1926
Several scenes in England including: Liverpool Street Station crowds of commuters trying to get to work. Vandalism in Northumberland where fish-plates and bolts had been removed from the rails

Southwold railway station, Suffolk, with a steam train alongside the platform. circa 1900s

Mari Indus Railway Station, North West Frontier Province (then in British India, now in Pakistan), with soldiers and a GIP military train. Date: circa 1919

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

Halesowen railway station, Dudley, West Midlands. Date: circa 1910

Aberdare National Park, Kenya, East Africa
Lookout post in Aberdare National Park, Kenya, East Africa, viewed from Treetops, Nyeri. Date: circa 1950

Advertisement for M&B All Bright beer -- male model pouring beer from a bottle into a glass. 1959

New Moshi railway station, Tanga Moshi line, East Africa
New Moshi railway station, at the end of the Tanga Moshi line, East Africa (now in Tanzania). 1916

Ballycastle Station and Narrow- Gauge Railway - a view of Ballycastle station with steam train Countess of Antrim and people at the front side of the train. On the platform a boy looks

SE&CR (South Eastern & Chatham Railway) - Hastings Express
SE&CR (South Eastern & Chatham Railway) - The Hastings Express on the platform at London Brdge Station. Date: 1905

Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878). St. Petersburg. Departure of Russian officers to Serbia as volunteers in the army of General Tchernaieff. Engraving in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1877

Germany. Congress of Gotha, 1875, where was founded the German Socialist Party (SPD). Reminder sheet with portrait of Marx and Lassalle at the centre

London Tube 1960S
A tube with its doors open on an underground platform of the Victoria Line, London. Date: 1960s

Baalbek / Stone
The Temple platform, showing the massive stones whose size (note the figure standing by them !) has led some to conjecture that otherworldly beings were responsible Date: 1880

Railway strike 1911: Paddington Station
Several days of the week London lived under the shadow of the seige conditions, deserted rails with crowned platforms at Paddington Station, during the Great Railway Strike. August 1911

Cartoon, Espionage? Snooping? WW1
Cartoon, Espionage? Snooping? A German couple and their daughter go for an innocent country walk, but gradually metamorphose into a concrete platform, a camera and a telephone! Date: 1915

Two trains at Springfield, Ohio, USA
Two trains taking on water at the station in Springfield, Ohio, USA. The engines are the Big Four #46 and the CCC & St L (Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St Louis Railway) #6. Date: circa 1910

Zeppelin machine gunners by Matania, WW1
Zeppelin machine gunners attempting to beat off a British aeroplane attack. The gunners are positioned on a 9 foot platform above the bow end of the airship

Suffragette Flora Drummond Trafalgar Square. Mrs. Flora Drummond, arm raised, invites the crowd to Rush the House of Commons on 13th October 1908. Mrs

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