Rail Collection (page 86)

Fenchurch St Terminus
A wagon and a wheelbarrow carry goods from the terminus of the Blackwall Railway

Boxers Sabotage Rail
BOXER REBELLION Boxers sabotage the railway between Peking and Hong-Kong

Rail / Locomotive
The Sans Pareil of Timothy Hackworth, taking part in the Liverpool & Manchester Railway competition

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

Railway accident at Abergele, north west Wales
A railway accident at Abergele, north west Wales, when two trains collided on the Chester-Holyhead line. This is the scene an hour and a half after the accident

Puffing Billy, designed by William Hedley
The Puffing Billy locomotive, designed by William Hedley

Family travelling at night on a French train
A family travelling at night in their compartment of a French railway train

Train crossing a viaduct in the twilight
A train crossing a viaduct in the twilight, on the cover of a music sheet entitled Express Galop by d Albert

Trevithick 1800
Richard Trevithwicks Kensington model locomotive

Liverpool-Manch. Railway
Building the Liverpool & Manchester Rail-Way; entrance to the tunnel at Edge-Hill

Puffing Billy
Hedleys improved Wylam engine, known as Puffing Billy

Rail / Scandinavia
The first trains between Oslo and Stockholm and between Stockholm and Oslo

Rail Construction
Work on the Great Central Railway, near Lords cricket ground, north London Date: 1897

York Station / Frith 2
York Station/Frith 2

York Station / Frith 1
York Station/Frith 1

Trains at Redhill
A goods train waits on one track to let the passenger train go through, while a third train approaches through the station at Redhill, Surrey

Poodle Jumping
Poodle, wearing clothes, jumps over a rail

Clapham Junction / Frith
The busiest station in Britain, not because Clapham is so desirable a destination, but because so many lines meet and cross here. Date: 1900

Snowdon Station
Beddelgert/ Snowdon railway station

Alleghany Locomotive
of the Alleghany Railroad

St Pancras Interior
The interior of the station, showing the magnificent canopy dwarfing the trains beneath

St Pancras is Built
The magnificent canopy of the new Midland Railway terminus takes shape near the Euston Road

Rail / St Pancras Built
Construction workers try not to desecrate the burials in St Pancras Churchyard as the new terminus is built

Newcastle Station
The Great Central Railway Station at Newcastle- upon- Tyne Date: 1850

Smoking Cigarettes
A New Woman lights up in a railway smoking car, Brooklyn NY, USA

Paddington Station. Life at a railway station - passengers of every kind board (or are prevented from boarding) a train bound for the West Country

To seat five persons Gentlemen struggle to read their newspapers in an overcrowded train

Watch boy standing at the entrance to a mine
A watch boy standing at the entrance to a mine, keeping a lookout to avoid any accidents on converging tracks

Royal Albert railway bridge, Saltash, Cornwall
The Royal Albert railway bridge at Saltash, Cornwall

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

Changing trains at Gloucester
The break of gauge from wide to narrow gauge at Gloucester means that cross-country passengers and their baggage have to change trains

Building underground railway near Kings Cross, London
Construction work in progress on the worlds first underground railway near Kings Cross, Central London

Underground railway works, Thames Embankment, London
Underground railway works on the Thames Embankment, Central London

Orient Express dining car
The Orient Express -- the wagon-restaurant or dining car

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

First train from Shanghai to Kung-Wang, China
The first train leaves Shanghai for Kung-Wang, China

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

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