Rails Collection

Adlestrop Railway Station, Gloucestershire
The railway station at Adlestrop, Gloucestershire. Station staff stand on the platform while the Paddington-Worcester Express steams towards the station

On the rails at Goodwood by Howard K Elcock
An illustration showing how the Goodwood meeting at the end of the Season was as much a picnic party as a race meeting, with smart spectators enjoying a picnic lunch

Cwmpennar Colliery, Glamorgan, South Wales
View of Cwmpennar Colliery (also known as the Powell Duffryn Colliery), Mountain Ash, Glamorgan, South Wales

Railway station at Malvern, Worcestershire (on the Worcester and Hereford Railway route). Now known as Great Malvern railway station, it opened in 1860. Date: circa 1860s

Bestwood Colliery, near Bestwood Village, Nottinghamshire
View of Bestwood Colliery, near Bestwood Village, Nottinghamshire. The colliery closed in 1967, but the surviving headstock and winding house, and vertical steam engine of 1873

Goodwick Railway Station, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
A long line of passengers and staff waiting on the platform at Goodwick Railway Station on the Great Western Railway, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales. They are all looking across at the camera

A biplane and a steam train
Speed on the rails and in the air. A biplane flying over a steam train - the London Express - about to disappear into a tunnel. Date: 1928

Draycott, Cotswold village, Blockley Station, on the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway, viewed from the south-east. Date: circa 1917

Welsh miner in coal mine pushing truck
A Welsh miner, stripped to the waist, pushing a truck in a coal mine

Haverfordwest Railway Station, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
Passengers waiting for the 1040 to Paddington, on the up platform of Haverfordwest Railway Station in Pembrokeshire, South Wales

The Micheline - a train on pneumatic tyres
The Micheline - the first train on pneumatic tyres. In commercial use since 1931 - the birth of the Michelin Tyre. This example was run on the L.M.S. Line (Bletchley to Oxford) in 1932

Saxon Ladies / Strutt
Anglo-Saxons of 9th & 10th centuries: tunics (kirtles)- one with an embroidered hem, super-tunic (roc), mantles, veils or head-rails which completely cover the hair

Newcastle upon Tyne Railway Crossing - Castle - Tyne Bridge
Newcastle upon Tyne Railway Crossing (then the largest crossing of its type in the world) Newcastle Castle and distant misty view of the Tyne Bridge (which opened in 1928). Date: circa 1930

Main Street, Natchez, Mississippi, USA
View of a busy Main Street in Natchez, Mississippi, USA. Date: circa 1904

Broadway, Pittsburgh, Kansas, USA
Broadway, looking south, Pittsburgh, Kansas, USA. Date: circa 1904

Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, USA
General view of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, USA, with railway tracks and a train serving New York, New Haven and Hartford. circa 1910

Castle Pill railway, near Milford Haven, South Wales
View of the Great Western Railway at Castle Pill (pill is a local name for a tidal inlet), near Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, South Wales

Railway cutting works, discovery of fossilised trees
Railway cutting works on the Manchester to Bolton line, discovery of fossilised trees. Date: 1840s

El Navajo Hotel, Gallup, New Mexico, USA
El Navajo, the new Santa Fe hotel and station at Gallup, New Mexico, USA. Date: 1910s

The French Resistance - WWII (1 / 3)
Thanks to the parachute drop of plastic explosive, the French resitance were able to blow up the track. This enabled them to intercept a German train heading for the border on the line from Marseille

GWR construction work at Pontlliw, South Wales
Construction work taking place on the Great Western Railway near the village of Pontlliw, near Swansea, Glamorgan, South Wales

Tunnel construction, Great Western Railway, South Wales
Tunnel construction taking place on the Great Western Railway, somewhere in South Wales

16th Street, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
View of 16th Street, looking south from Douglas, Omaha, Nebraska, USA. Date: circa 1908

Horse-Trams Versus Buses
OLD STYLE VERSUS NEW Brown: Which would you rather ride by? Jones: Oh! the trams of course, no cruelty to the horses, but I am an opposer

Mania / Hudson Off Rails
OFF THE RAIL The speculations of railway financier George King Hudson (1800-1871), start to collapse

W D & H O Wills cigarette factory, Swindon, Wiltshire, showing an engine in a railway siding, and a Kinnear rolling metal shutter at the entrance to the factory

Never-stop railway at British Empire Exhibition 1924
Diagram showing step-on, step-off method, where people walked slowly onto the moving carriage that went around the British Empire Exhibition, in Wembley, designed by William Yorath Lewis

Old railway track at Winsford, Cheshire
Bullhead rail on stone sleepers at Over & Wharton (Winsford, Cheshire) on the LNWR. Possibly a re-use of redundant tramway blocks? Date: 1905

Vickers Wellington GR Mk. XIV MP714
Royal Air Force - Vickers Wellington GR Mk. XIV MP714. Seen fitted with chin-mounted ASV Mk. III radar, retractable Leigh Light in the Ventral turret position and RP-3 (from Rocket Projectile 3 inch)

The Old Wicker Railway Station, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
The Old Wicker Railway Station building in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, which opened in 1838. In 1870 it was closed to passengers, being used for freight and renamed Wicker Goods. Date: circa 1840s

Police removing suffragettes chained to railings 1908
Police officers removing Edith New and Olivia Smith from the railings of 10. Downing Street. The image is interestingly captioned

Ste Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, Canada - Railway Station of the GTR (The Grand Trunk Railway). Date: circa 1910s

Express train at full speed on Pennsylvania Railroad, USA
New York to Chicago express train at full speed on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Date: circa 1910

The Furness Line railway near Grange over Sands, Cumbria
The Furness Line railway near Grange over Sands, Morecambe Bay, Cumbria, England Date: 2012

Illustration of early railway / tramway / wagonway rails Date: 19th century

Workington Steel Works Rail Shop early 1900s

Workington Steel Works Rail MIll early 1900s

Aldford House, Park Lane, Staircase Skylight
A photograph which shows the top of the staircase and skylight of Aldford House, a grand mansion in Park Lane, built between 1894-1897 for diamond magnate Alfred Beit

Modernist House In Church Street, Chelsea, Balcony
An artistic architectural photograph showing a view looking up to the curved hand rails and balconies of a modernist house situated in Church Street, Chelsea, designed in 1936

No. 1 Engine on original rails, Stockton & Darlington Railwa
No. 1 Engine on the original rails, Stockton & Darlington Railway

The Channel Crossing
A tempera painting of some figures tightly fixing themselves to seats and rails of a boat, travelling across the Channel Crossing, on a somewhat turbulent sea. Date: circa 1920

Beira, Mozambique - Private tram-car system
Beira, Mozambique - The private tram-car system - undoubtedly one of the most unusual forms of conveyance in the world. The cars ran on tiny tracks which rose out of the sand

British graveyard on Western Front, WW1
A British graveyard on the Western Front in France during World War One. A smashed railway track can be seen, as well as German ammunition left after a retreat

Funicular steam train, on a railway with tunnel, France
Vintage 19th century photograph: funicular steam train, engine, on a railway with tunnel, France, image c.1890 s

Waterfront in Smyrna, Izmir, Turkey, c. 1890
Waterfront in Smyrna, Izmir, Turkey, c.1890

Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway, Kent
Father shows his daughter the workings of a steam locomotive on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway, Kent. Date: circa 1950

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

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

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