Rails Collection (page 5)

Main Street, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA
Main Street looking north, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA. Date: circa 1908

People riding on a miniature steam train
Adults and children riding on a miniature steam train with a British flag on the front. Date: circa 1950s

People with miniature steam train
People with a miniature steam train on a raised track. Date: circa 1930s

Children on miniature train at seaside
Children riding on a miniature steam train at a seaside resort. Date: circa 1930s

Children gathered around a miniature train
Children gathered around a miniature steam train. Date: circa 1930s

Cheltenham Spa Express steam train
The Cheltenham Spa Express steam train, drawn by locomotive steam engine 012, The Gloucestershire Regiment. Date: 1960s

Intercity Viaduct, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
The Intercity Viaduct, crossing the Kansas River in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. It was built in 1907 for use by vehicles and pedestrians. It is now known as the Lewis and Clark Viaduct

Railway station, Englewood, New Jersey, USA
Railway station at Englewood, New Jersey, USA. circa 1905

Suffragette Proof Racecourse
Following the action of Emily Wilding Davison at the 1913 Epsom Derby, the racecourse authorities were keen to avoid any repetition. This cartoon envisages the Race Course of the Near Future, suff

Train derailment, Borough Market, London SE1
Train derailment at Borough Market, near London Bridge, SE1, on 12 August 1958, showing the three sections of the train taken from the London Bridge end of the track. Date: 1958

Distorted rails after fire in Hackney, East London
Distorted rails after a fire at Wallis Road, Hackney, East London, 16 August 1955. The fire involved baled cork in the arch under Clarnico Bridge on the railway line between Stratford

Lt George Ivan Carmichael dropping bombs - Menin Station
Lieutenant George Ivan Carmichael (Royal Artillery and Royal Flying Corps) dropping bombs on the rails at Menin Railway Station from a height of only 120 feet

Railway in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1890s

Fleet of ships off Bombay (Mumbai), India. Date: circa 1890s

Peak Tram, Hong Kong, China. Date: circa 1890

Men laying new light railway, Western Front, WW1
Men at work laying a new light railway, so that logs can be transported to a sawmill. On the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Railway construction in France, Western Front, WW1
Broad gauge railway construction on the Western Front in France during World War One. Progress was made at a rate of one mile per day. Date: circa 1916

Two soldiers in underground passageway, WW1
Two soldiers in an underground passageway during the First World War. Date: 1916

Two women at a railway station, South London
Two young women at a railway station in South London. An advertisement on the opposite platform is for property, houses of character for 745 freehold

Sunbathing & Working
Two men and a woman pushing a truck full of soil on rails whilst sunbathing at Physiopolis, a health club and holiday camp. Date: 1930s

Wreck of Sir Hiram Maxim?s steam-driven aeroplane. Note ?
Wreck of Sir Hiram Maxim?s steam-driven aeroplane. Note the bent axle which was damaged by excessive upward pressure on the antilift rails used to prevent the aeroplane leaving the ground

WW2 - Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps in France
WW2 - British Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps in France - shown here building railway sidings. Date: 1942

Jean Bourrat - caricature by Moloch
Jean Bourrat (1859-1909) - French Politician - in charge of the administration of roads and bridges from 1879 to 1896, as well as the construction of railway lines in France

The shed containing a Thor IRBM rolls back on rails

Demonstration of Hiram Maxims flying machine Baldwyns Park
Demonstration of Hiram Maxims flying machine at Baldwyns Park, Kent, 3 November 1894. It made a short uncontrolled hop flight on 31 July 1894

Wreck of Sir Hiram Maxims steam-driven aeroplane. Note the bent axle which was damaged by excessive upward pressure on the antilift rails used to prevent the aeroplane leaving the ground

de Havilland Mosquito FBVI with rocket rails

Birkinshaws?s Patent for malleable iron rails for railroads
Spec for J Birkinshaws?s patent for improvement in the construction of malleable iron rails for railroads

Advertisement for railway equipment
Advertisement for W B Dick & Co of London, Manufacturers of Light Railways and Tramway Materials. Showing various railway items, with a depiction of Kerrs Patent Portable Railway at the centre

Romania - Eforie Sud
The ruins of Soimos Fortress, Cetate, Romania Date: circa 1929

Railway line in the snow near M� engladbach, Germany. Early 1960s

Motor car Railroad - Medellin, Colombia
Medellin, Colombia - The tramway company Tranvia de Oriente opened a gasoline-powered line in 1925, seen here in the process of construction

San Sebastian, Spain - Decorative bathing house
San Sebastian, Spain - Ondaretta Beach on the Bay of La Concha (Kontxako Badia). Inthe foreground is the wonderful Caseta Real - a bath house built in the late nineteenth century

American troops at Varennes-en-Argonne, France, WW1
American troops at Varennes-en-Argonne, north eastern France, during the First World War, walking past bombed-out buildings. Date: circa 1918

Civilian refugees near Ghent, Belgium, WW1
Civilian refugees resting at the side of a rail track near Ghent, Belgium, during the First World War. Date: 9 October 1914

49th Street Rail Station, Borough Park, Brooklyn, NY
49th Street Rail Station, Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America. Date: 1908

Ruined bridge on Monastir railway, WW1
View of the ruined Ekshisu Railway Bridge on the Monastir railway, 20 miles south east of Monastir, near Lake Ostrovo. It was damaged during the Battle of Kajmakchalan between Bulgarian

British cyclists company disembarking, Salonika, WW1
A British cyclists company disembarking at Salonika (Salonica, Thessaloniki, Greece) during the First World War. Date: 2 December 1915

Railway engine run off the lines, Maricourt, France, WW1
A railway engine which has run off the lines at Maricourt, northern France, during the First World War. With British and (probably) French soldiers. Date: September 1916

Allied troops in Mesopotamia, WW1
Allied troops (mostly of the Indian Army) next to a railway line in Mesopotamia during the First World War. Sixteen men are needed to carry each rail. Date: 1916-1918

Railway staff laying track in South Africa, WW1
South African railway staff laying track across scrub land to join up with the Windhoek line (now in Namibia, but then in German South West Africa) to Kaalfontein and Upington (South Africa)

Station on Susa North Railway, Cameroon, Africa, WW1
View of a station on the Susa North Railway, German Cameroon, west central Africa, around the time of the First World War. Date: circa 1914

Ahmed Jemal Pasha inspecting troops, WW1
Ahmed Jemal (Djemal, Cemal) Pasha (1872-1922), Commander-in-Chief of the Fourth Ottoman Army, seen here inspecting troops during the First World War. circa 1915

Three soldiers using lamp for signalling, France, WW1
Three soldiers of a Pioneer Battalion using a daylight lamp for signalling at the side of a railway track near Feuchy, Arras, northern France, during the First World War. Date: May 1917

The French Resistance - WWII (2 / 3)
The German occupants of each train carriage are captured by the French resistance at Romaneche, France. The resistance soldiers, set plastic explosive on the tracks in order to capture the trains

LIFE-BOAT
The Inshore Lifeboat (ILB) Station, Eastbourne, which was built in 1903, seen here with the Royal Navy Lifeboat (RNLB) Beryl Tollemache, which was launched in 1949. Date: 1960s

Cardonnel Junction, near Neath, South Wales
View of the track at Cardonnel Junction, near Neath, on the Great Western Railway, South Wales

GWR line at Treffgarne, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
View of the Great Western Railway line at the Treffgarne cutting, Nant Y Coy, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales. The navvy hut can be seen on the left

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