Rail Collection (page 16)

Birmingham New Street Station
Passengers await the arrival of their train on a platform at Birmingham New Street Station. Date: circa 1950s

Approach to Waterloo Station, London, with St Pauls Cathedral in the distance on the right. Date: circa 1950s

A street market in Londons East End
Second-hand clothes stalls in an East End street market in London. Date: circa 1950s

A steam train ride for children
Scale working steam train preparing to give ride to children. Date: 1950s

Railway Station, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Date: circa 1940s

Terminal Group and Train Subway, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Date: circa 1920

Weather Report - Illustrated - Breezy, A green-faced sickly-looking Gent seated by a ships rail is less than happy at the attentions of a rosy-cheeked rotund fellow passenger whos breezy countenance

Comic postcard, Man racing for the train, pursued by his creditors Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman with her hands full on a train - Which shall I drop? Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man and porter on railway platform Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman buying rail ticket with two children hiding under her skirts, WW1 Date: circa 1918

Comic postcard, drunkard on wrong train - speak to the driver! Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Pretty young woman seeks YWCA, station porter misunderstands Date: 20th century

Section of the Thames Embankment
A section of the Thames Embankment, taken by the Charing Cross railway bridge, showing; (1) the subway, designed to hold the gas pipes, the water pipes, perhaps the telegraph wires

Designs for a Channel Bridge by Sir Owen Williams. Date: 1960

Elevated railway or El Train at 110th Street New York
Curve on the elevated railway or El Train at 110th Street New York. Vintage 19th century photograph

Train on the Rigi funicular railway, Lake Lucerne, Switzerla
Vintage 19th century photograph: Train on the Rigi funicular railway, Lake Lucerne, Switzerland

19th c. photograph: Gotthard Rail tunnel, Switzerland
Gotthard Rail tunnel, Switzerland The Gotthard Tunnel (German: Gotthardtunnel, is a 15.kilometre-long railway tunnel and forms the summit of the Gotthard Railway in Switzerland)

Railway Mania - illustration by Alfred Crowquill - a steam train running out of track as it heads to the edge of the precipice... Date: 1845

Railway Mania - written and illustrated by Alfred Crowquill. Date: 1845

Railway Mania - text written by Alfred Crowquill. Date: 1845

Welsh Firemen in position above the pit-head and railway
Welsh Firemen in a strategic position above the pit-head and railway on a daily exercise routine. many Welsh miners were part-time fireman during the war. Date: circa 1941

Least sandpiper and Virginia rail
Least sandpiper, Calidris minutilla 1 and Virginia rail, Rallus limicola 2. Males in fall plumage. Chromolithograph after an ornithological illustration by John James Audubon from Benjamin Harry

Great blue heron, Ardea herodias. Chromolithograph after an ornithological illustration by John James Audubon from Benjamin Harry Warrens Report on the Birds of Pennsylvania, E.K

Northwestern Passenger Station, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Chicago and Northwestern Passenger Terminal, Madison Street, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Date: 1933

Progress of the Balaclava Railway to the Church of Kadikoy, Crimean War. 1855

Packed riverboat at Windsor
Packed upper level of a riverboat preparing to take a boatload of daytrippers for a journey up the River Thames at Windsor

Front cover of a bound volume of The British Workman, an improving magazine for the working classes founded by Thomas Bywater Smithies in 1855, committed to encouraging temperance, protestantism

Poster, Bugatti cars and autorails

Rubber Rule in Africa - Methods of Barbarism. The atrocities carried out against the native population in Belgina Congo, Africa. An elderly Chief is shot for not meeting his rubber collection target

Lady Eliza Deane at Dundanion, 1847
Lady Eliza Deane commencing, at Dundanion, the Cork, Blackrock and Passage Railway. Date: 1847

Torbay Express steam locomotive
The Torbay Express steam locomotive 70035, the Rudyard Kipling, which ran from London Paddington to the West Country. Date: circa 1960s

Steam locomotive, London to Newcastle Express
Steam locomotive 60073 on the London to Newcastle Express service. Date: circa 1960s

Duchess of Sutherland steam locomotive, Oxenholm Junction
Duchess of Sutherland (Royal Scot) steam locomotive 46233 at Oxenholme Junction, for Kendal and Windermere, Lake District. Date: circa 1960s

Train with pneumatic wheels demonstrated at Bletchley
A rail road car, a train with pneumatic wheels which runs on rails was demonstrated at Bletchley this morning in a trail run to Oxford

Unidentified locomotive no 11257, side elevation. By J Gabriel, possibly for EB Wilson. Inscribed similar to Jenny Lind (by EB Wilson, 1848) except fluting of dome omitted, whistle omitted

LNER Advertisement - August 12th
LNER Advertisement for train routes north to Scotland for the start of the grouse-shotting season on August 12th. 1928

Speed and the World Speeds with You
Photo montage in The Bystander reflecting the 1930s obsession with speed and transport, as exemplified by pictures of racing cars, aeroplanes and steam trains. Date: 1932

Advert, Cannon Towels -- absorb quickly, wear well, cost less. 1926

ILN cover - Bren-carriers being entrained
Open rail trucks being loaded with Bren-gun carriers by their crews in June 1940, when all munitions production in Britain was ramped up in the face of a threat of German invasion. Date: 1940

Building Victoria station
Building the new Victoria station - the view from Buckingham Palace Road. Extending Victoria station in 1905, and increasing the size from five to thirteen

Opening of the Northampton & Peterborough Railway
Thrapston and Oundle stations, along the route of the newly opened Northampton and Peterborough Railway. Date: 1845

The new Golden Arrow / La Nouvelle Fleche D Or. 1929

Plymouth as a Port of Call in 1928 - multiple travel routes to all parts of he world. Date: 1929

A Change of Scene - Advert for Southern Railway 1939
A Change of Scene - Advertisement for Southern Railway - Why not try France this Autumn? Date: 1939

Advertisement for Southern British Railways 1957
Advertisement - The Leisurely way to France... via Southampton - Le Havre with Southern British Railways. " A modicum of relaxation in the midst of business is always pleasant..." Date: 1957

French Railway News - Paris-Dijon Speed-up - Electrification shortens the journey, knocking an hour off the old timetable. 1951

Trains - The Golden Arrow, The Sud Express - The Blue Train
" Oh, when I was a tiny boy, A train, it was my fav rite toy..." Three of the great European trains - The Golden Arrow, The Sud Express and The Blue Train. Date: 1926

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