Rail Collection (page 82)

Greenwich Railway 1836
LONDON-GREENWICH LINE Elevated on either arches or embankment throughout most of its length, the line passes St Jamess church, Bermondsey, as well as gardens

Rainhill Loco Trial
THE RAINHILL COMPETITION The Rocket, the Novelty and the Sans-Pareil compete in a performance trial at Rainhill, near Liverpool

Rail / Uk / Accident Cartoon
Muddleby Junction - a confused pointsman tries to remember which line the fast approaching express train is travelling on

Excursion Bill
Handbill announcing a two-day trip from Bradford to London, for the purpose of visiting the International Exhibition. A third class return ticket costs ten shilling

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

Electric Monorail 1909
That electricity will replace steam, and the monorail the twin tracks of conventional railways, seems an inevitable development

Futuristic train travel, Paris to Peking
This is how you will travel from Paris to Peking in the year 2000 - on a high-speed monorail travelling at intercontinental velocity !

Rocket Train Project
This is German inventor Max Valiers magnetic rail car project of 1932, but given a face-lift by the American publisher. It sounds great in principle, but

Wellington Auckland Xprs
The Wellington to Auckland Express, hauled by a K-type locomotive, crosses a viaduct

Kalka - Simla Railway 2
View on the Kalka to Simla Railway in northern India : a train emerges from a gorge

Articulated Locomotive
The glory of steam ! A magnificent Beyer-Garratt articulated locomotive of the Bengal Nagpur Railway draws into a station crowded with travellers

Canadian Cpr Loco
Express locomotive of the Canadian Pacific Railway

Union Pacific Construct
Native Americans watch with mixed feelings as the Union Pacific extends its track into the western territories

Union Pacific Locomotive
Express loco of the Union Pacific Railroad

Canadian Pacific Train
A Canadian Pacific 2-10-4 locomotive hauls The Dominion transcontinental express

Mt Pilatus Railway
A steep stretch of the Pilatusbahn - the railway that takes you up Mount Pilatus, near Lucerne

Mt Pilatus Railway C1900
The locomotive that takes the mountain railway up Mount Pilatus, near Lucerne

Rigibahn View Colour
The Rigibahn, one of the worlds most specular mountain railways

Zugspitz Cable Railway
The cable railway up the Zugspitz is currently the worlds highest... until someone builds a higher one

Madrid Station
Madris : Estacion del Mediodia

Spanish Passengers
Passengers in a Spanish railway compartment

Horse-Drawn German Rail
Horse-drawn wagons along a railway track : as in Britain, the idea of tracks preceded that of using steam to power the vehicles that would run on them

Belgian Locomotive
Locomotive of the Belgian State Railways

Yugoslavia Train Crash
On the Zagreb to Spalato line, high winds and snow combine to send a freight train off the tracks

Austrian Locomotive
Locomotive of the Austrian State Railway

An Unexpected Client
AN UNEXPECTED CLIENT ! a local train leaves the rails as it passes through a village, lands up in a cafe

Demo On-Line
The inhabitants of Villeneuve- le-roi halt the Sud-Express, by way of demonstrating to be given a station of their own by the railway company

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

Station at Calais
At Calais station, travellers from England transfer from boat to train or vice versa

Crossing Gate Keeper
A French crossing gate keeper, armed with horn and flag to provide aural and visual warnings of an approaching train

Paris - Reims Express
The Paris - Reims express

LA Fleche D or
The Fleche d Or - the Golden Arrow - is a pullman express carrying travellers rapidly between Calais and Paris

Paris-Mont Dore Express
The Paris-Mont Dore express of the Chemin de Fer d Orleans

Paris-Saint Germain Line
Scene on the Rothschild line linking Paris and Saint- Germain

Paris Train of 1837
Locomotive Dragon and wagon of the Rothschild line from Paris to Saint-Germain

Train in Snowdrift 1866
Clearing the road through a snow-wreath on the Highland Railway, Scotland

Ensuring Privacy
How an English gentleman makes sure of his privacy while travelling by rail

New Woman in Smoker
A New Woman enters a smoking compartment, to the consternation of the occupants

Victoria Commuters 1907
Evening commuters rush to get home via Victoria Station, London

St Pancras Platforms 2
A busy moment at the Midland Railway terminus which claims to be the largest single span passenger station in the world

St Pancras Platforms
With its magnificent canopy the Midland Railway terminus claims to be the largest single span passenger station in the world

Liverpool St Approach
The entrance to the station for passengers, cabs, cars and goods vehicles is practical but not very picturesque

London Kings Cross
Interior of the Great Northern Railways london terminus at Kings Cross : porters and passengers on the platforms

Advert / Railway Station
The walls of the station are a gigantic billboard for medical items, travel, insurance, billiards, Cooks Tours, sherry, and more beside

At a Level Crossing
A country wagon waits at a level crossing while a train headed by a Schools class locomotive is waved at by a boy on the gate

Station in Winter
A railway station in winter : passengers crowd into the unheated train. Note the carriages on the flat wagons behind

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

Excursion Crowd Station
An excursion train brings its passengers to a seaside resort

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