Rails Collection (page 3)

KAILAN COAL MINES 1930S
Chinese miners pushing trolleys of coal on rails at the (British) Kailan coal mines, China. Date: 1930s

Two America hoboes risking life and limb
Two Hoboes risk life and limb by riding on a carriage truck in America. Date: 1893

War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells - First Publication
The Martian Fighting- Machines wreck the railways. The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

Railway station platform, Semaphore, Southern Australia
Railway station platform, Semaphore Road, Semaphore, Southern Australia. Date: circa 1906

Railway station, Nuevitas, Cuba, with the docks on the right. Date: circa 1920

Khojak Tunnel and railway, Balochistan, British India
Khojak Tunnel (Shela Bagh Tunnel) on the Quetta railway, Qilla Abdullah District, Balochistan Province, British India (now in Pakistan), near the border with Afghanistan. Date: circa 1910s

National Bank of India, Mombasa, Kenya, East Africa
Aerial view, National Bank of India Ltd (left), and Colonial Stores (right), Mombasa, Kenya, British East Africa. Date: circa 1904

Carole Lombard & William Powell sailing to Honolulu
American actress Carole Lombard pictured on board a boat ready to set sail for Honolulu with her first husband, actor William Powell

Switchback railway, Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, USA
Switchback railway, near Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, USA. A gravity narrow gauge railroad at the Summit Hill coalmines, used by the company to transport coal in trucks to the village across

Coal train, Great Western Railway, South Wales
A one hundred truck coal train on the Great Western Railway, somewhere in South Wales. The trucks belong to the John Lancaster & Co colliery company of Nant-y-glo (Nantyglo), and bear a griffin symbol

Men with dram, Elliot Colliery, New Tredegar, South Wales
Two men hauling a dram (truck) full of coal from a cage at the pithead of the Elliot Colliery, New Tredegar, Rhymney Valley, South Wales

Men with dram, Hook Colliery, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
Three men with a loaded dram (truck) of coal at Hook Colliery, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, South Wales

Loading Coal Barges
A pit pony pulling heavy coal trucks along on rails for loading onto barges on a canal in Staffordshire, England

Giant Powder Works, Point Pinole, California, USA
Giant Powder Works, an explosive powder (gunpowder) manufacturing company in Point Pinole, Richmond, California, USA. Date: circa 1892

Southern Railway Firemen
Firefighters working for Southern Railway spray water onto the roof of a train. Southern Railway employed eighty A.F.S. men in order to fight fires caused by Luftwaffe incendiary bombs. 1940

Halesowen railway station, Dudley, West Midlands. Date: circa 1910

Railway construction at Belemedik, Turkey -- part of the Berlin-Baghdad railway. Date: circa 1915

British Railways - The Flying Scotsman - Bittern Class
British Railways - The Flying Scotsman (Bittern Class - Dominion of New Zealand - No 4492) - the new streamlined engine introduced on this route on 4th July 1938. Date: 1938

Horse-drawn tram on a Victorian scrap, advertising Raphael Tuck & Sons Artistic Cards. Date: circa 1890s

Train Derailed in Snow
The Great Western Railways Flying Dutchman express goes off the rails in heavy snow at Camborne, Cornwall. Date: 1891

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

Bombardment of Termonde, Belgium, WW1
Scene during the Bombardment of Termonde, Belgium, by the Germans during the First World War. Showing Belgian infantry sniping after blowing up the railway. Date: 18 September 1914

US Army building the Panama Canal, Central America
The US Army taking part in the building of the Panama Canal, linking the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Date: early 20th century

Howitzer shell, Iron Ration, WW1
A 15 inch Howitzer shell on the ground, during the First World War, with the ironic words Iron Ration painted on it. Date: 1914-1918

Testing the Bascule Bridge, Carmarthen, South Wales
Testing the Carmarthen Bascule Bridge at Carmarthen, Dyfed, South Wales. The bridge was built to carry the Great Western Railway over the River Towy

Railway tunnel, Oakeley Slate Quarry, North Wales
Entrance to a railway tunnel, built in 1879, which goes right under the main workings of Oakeley Slate Quarry, Blaenau Ffestiniog, North Wales

Quai Chanzy, Boulogne-sur-Mer, northern France. Date: circa 1900s

City Hall Square, New York City, USA
City Hall Square and municipal buildings, Brooklyn, New York City, USA. Date: circa 1898

Railway station, Delanson, Schenectady County, NY State, USA
Railway station (Delaware and Hudson line), Delanson, Schenectady County, New York State, USA. circa 1910

Railway station, Rimforsa, Ostergotland, Sweden
Railway station and Station Hotel for tourists, Rimforsa, Ostergotland, Sweden. Date: circa 1905

Railway station, Karlstad East, Varmland, Sweden. Date: circa 1905

Railway station, Stromstad, Vastra Gotaland, Sweden
Railway station at the waterside, Stromstad, Vastra Gotaland, Sweden. Date: circa 1910

Railway station at Haifa, Northern Israel. Date: circa 1910

English Cathedral, Mombasa, Kenya, East Africa
English Cathedral and surrounding area, Mombasa, Kenya, British East Africa. Date: circa 1908

Wharf at Rarotonga, Cook Islands, South Pacific. Date: circa 1910

Communist China - sabotaged supply line
Chinese villagers standing behind an uplifted railway track in Communist China - they had sabotaged a supply line to cut off the enemys route in wartime. circa 1940s

Electric car tunnel in Yokohama, Japan. Date: circa 1900s

Customs Offices, Beira, Mozambique, East Africa
Customs Offices, Beira, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, with trolley transport in the street outside. Date: circa 1920

Couple riding trolley, Beira, Mozambique, East Africa
Couple riding a trolley in the city of Beira, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa. Date: circa 1920

Advertisement for Maggy Rouff fashions, showing elegant women at a party on a yacht at night. 1929

Scene on Honshu Island, Japan, with Mount Fuji in the distance on the left. Date: circa 1910

New Moshi railway line, East Africa
Tracks on the New Moshi railway, Tanga Moshi line, East Africa (now in Tanzania). 1916

Overnight cross-channel yacht race -- man on deck in waterproof clothing. 1965

Swimming pool on cruise liner, Empress of Australia
The indoor Pompeiian swimming pool, surrounded by individual dressing rooms, on the Canadian Pacific cruise liner, Empress of Australia. Date: 1929

Find the Fault card No. 22 -- steam train. circa 1930s

Rail Crash Near Belper
Near Belper, Derbyshire, a goods train goes off the rails at a bridge, the wagons go down the embankment and pile up on the riverbed. Date: November 1859

Rail Crash Kentish Town
On the Hampstead Junction Railway, a train goes off the rails and down the embankment at Kentish Town in north London. Date: 1861

Germans Use Trolleys
The Germans use trolleys which travel along rails in their advance on Leningrad. Date: September 1941

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