Rail Collection (page 77)

Salisbury Rail Crash
The dining coach where most people perished in a train crash at Salisbury in 1906

RAIL / TUNNEL / 1831
LIVERPOOL - MANCHESTER RAILWAY Inside a tunnel along the course of the historic rail link, opened in September 1830

Rail / St Helens / 1832
LIVERPOOL - MANCHESTER RAILWAY The Intersection bridge on the St Helens & Runcorn Gap railway, crossing the Liverpool to Manchester line

Rail / Manchester / 1830
LIVERPOOL - MANCHESTER RAILWAY A view of Water Street station, Manchester

Rail / Liverpool / 1830
LIVERPOOL - MANCHESTER RAILWAY The railway office in Liverpool at Crown Street station

Rail / Wapping Tunnel / 1830
LIVERPOOL - MANCHESTER RAILWAY Warehouses at the end of the Wapping Tunnel

Rail / Moorish Arch / 1830
LIVERPOOL - MANCHESTER RAILWAY A Moorish style arch, looking from the Wapping Tunnel

Rail / Rainhill Bridge
LIVERPOOL - MANCHESTER RAILWAY Rainhill Bridge, known as The Chairmans Bridge, built of sandstone

Rail / Olive Mount / 1831
LIVERPOOL - MANCHESTER RAILWAY Excavation along the narrow two-mile cutting through the rock of Mount Olive

Roosevelt &railroad Bill
THEODORE ROOSEVELT 26th American President and the Railroad Bill: " Must the donkey do all the work?"

New York / Broadway 1895
New York: 229 Broadway, premises of the Atlantic Coast Line for all points south

Horse Racing / Howitt
A delightful depiction of an early 19th century horse race, with spectators (also on horseback) following alongside behind the track rail

Steam Locos & Signals
A view from the drivers cab of a mailine steam locomotive nearing Waterloo railway station, London. Two locomotives, spewing out thick smoke, are approaching

Locomotive / Wedgwood
Named after Sir Ralph Wedgwood, chief general manager of London and North East Railways

Summertime Special Train
Full steam ahead: The No. 5073 steam locomotive, at speed, near Reading, heading to Paddington railway station, London, with the Summer Special

Rainy Romance
A young couple gaze out of a rainy railway carriage window on a romantic trip together

Cheltenham Spa Express
The Cheltenham Spa Express train, being pulled by the Gloucester Regiment locomotive steam engine

GOLDEN ARROW BAR
A couple have a drink in the bar of the famous Golden Arrow train which took passengers from London to the Dover to Calais ferry to France

Menai Bridges / Hawkins
The Britannia Tubular Bridge (foreground) designed by Robert Stephenson and opened in 1850 and the Menai Suspension Bridge designed by Thomas Telford, opened in 1826

3rd Class Carriages
A popular and packed train on the route between Paris and Orleans. The rear four carriages are open and contain the third class passengers, exposed to all elements

Rail Construction 1836
An extensive team of navvies build a retaining wall near Part Street, Camden Town, London

Tunnelling / Kilsby / Shaft
The Head Gear at the Great Shaft during the construction of the Kilsby Tunnel

Digging a Rail Cutting
The construction of the Tring Cutting. Railway navvies dig out the earth and rock by hand with the spoil lifted up to the top of the bank by horse- powered winches

Cannon Street Station
Opened 1 September 1866. Designed by Sir John Hawkshaw. The glass roof was removed prior to World War Two, but was damaged in storage and was replaced

Penrhyn Castle / Wales
The view across the fields toward this fortified manor house, which was expanded and transformed in the form of a Norman Castle by Thomas Hopper in the mid 19th century

Manchester Railway / 1833
Entrance into Manchester across Water Street. This is an interesting variant on a well known engraving, with added factory chimneys and technological advances

Elevated Railway / London
A Perspective View of the London Railway - a future prediction for an elevated railway running close to current buildings in the capital

First American Train

Carriages Taken by Train
A fascinating picture showing the arrival at a countryside terminus of a steam train transporting two stagecoaches which are unloaded to depart onward by road

Locomotive Galop 1867
A locomotive train emerges from a tunnel

King Henry VIII steam locomotive near Slough
The King Henry VIII steam locomotive of the Great Western Railway near Taplow and Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. Part of the King Class of locomotives, it was built in 1928 and withdrawn in 1962

Montmartre Funicular
La funiculaire de Montmartre, Paris

Mountain Railway Switz
MONTE SAN SALVATORE RAILWAY No need to put on your climbing boots to ascend this mountain in Italian Switzerland - the railway will take you most of the way

Schwebebahn Overhead Rly
SCHWEBEBAHN Elevated suspended railway linking Barmen and Elberfeld

Russian Rail on Ice
Temporary railway constructed over the frozen Neva at Saint Petersburg

German Military Railway
MILITARY RAILWAY German soldiers laying a railway track : the German Army was quick to appreciate the value of rail transport in modern warfare

New York to Chicago
The passenger express from New York to Chicago depicted as it travels beside the Hudson River

Franco-Pruss / Bretonneux
Battle of Amiens during the Franco-Prussian War: the Prussians 44th regiment attacks a rail embankment at Villers Bretonneux

Children / Travelling / 1880
Four children on their way to the seaside in the train

Stephensons locomotion
George Stephensons Locomotion, at Darlington

Great Western Rail 1850
Great Western Railway locomotive Lord of the Isles, built on the broad gauge favoured by Brunel, so unable to run on other lines

Rome Rail Severed
Papal forces sever the railway line between Rome and Foligno, to hamper the expected attack by Garibaldi and his men

Rail in Cuba
The railway line from Havana to San Diego crosses el camino de Vuelta-Abajo

Goods Train 1980
A British goods train

Eastern Union Cutting
The building of Brantham Bridge and Cutting, on the Eastern Union Railway

Construction Photo
Building the Central Line, from London to the North of England

USA Locomotive / Fortune
Various locomotive in an advertisement for aluminum

Royal Engineers (Rail)
ROYAL ENGINEERS Railway Battalion

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