Railways Collection (page 13)

Puffing Billy, Hedleys improved Wylam engine
Hedleys improved Wylam engine, known as Puffing Billy Date: 1813

Poster, Champs Elysees, Paris, France. Date: circa 1961

Poster, Ireland for Entrancing Scenery, Innisfallen, Killarney, Great Southern Railways. Date: circa 1920

Poster, Killarney, Great Southern Railways, Ireland
Poster, Killarney, Heavens Reflex, Great Southern Railways, Ireland. Date: circa 1920

Aerial view, entrance to Victoria Station, London, with cars and buses. circa 1920s

See India advert - Imperial Indian Mail train
See India advertisement from the Indian Railways Bureau. From Bombay to Calcutta the Imperial Indian Mail runs its weekly journey carrying first class passengers only with their servants. Date: 1935

Railway strike 1911: London lines being guarded
Great Western Railway was being protected by Grenadiers against any vandalism coursed by protesters. August 1911

WW1 - The British transporting ammunition
WW1 - The British at work, transporting a a load of high calibers. The troops made and used small improvised railways to transport the ammunition more easily. Date: 1918

61541 British Railways Class B12 / 3 Steam Locomotive 4-6-0
61541 British Railways Class B12/3 Steam Locomotive 4-6-0, St James Bridge Railway Station, Hexthorpe, near Doncaster, Yorkshire, England. Date: 1955

77012 British Railways Class 3MT Steam Locomotive 2-6-0, Holbeck Shed, Leeds, Yorkshire, England. Date: 1961

British Railways Accident, Harrow and Wealdstone Railway Station, County of London, England. Date: 1952

Keighley Worth Valley Railway, Yorkshire
92220 British Railways Class 9F Evening Star 2-10-1, Keighley Worth Valley Railway, near Bradford, Yorkshire, England. Date: 1960s

Railway Station, Keighley, Yorkshire
Railway Station, Keighley, Bradford, Yorkshire, England. Showing 92220 British Railways Class 9F Evening Star 2-10-0 Date: 1976

The Four Tier Gallery & Pipeline, Simla, Himachal Pradesh
The Four Tier Gallery & Pipeline, Simla, near Phagli, Himachal Pradesh, India. Indian Railways Date: 1930s

British Railways Poster Site Advertising Card, England. Showing Double and Quad Crown sites Date: 1950s

Sunday Work in the Tunnel of a Great Main Line, Matania
Labour and railway efficiency: Renewing the Permanent Way of a Great Main Line. Sunday work in the tunnel of a great main line outside London - gangs of navvies relaying the permanent way. Date: 1914

Opening of the East Indian Railway
The opening of the East Indian Railway, showing the Burdwan Station. The huge railway line connected Calcutta, Delhi and Lahore. Date: 3rd February 1855

WW1 - Belgians destroy railways to hamper German advance
WW1 - Belgians destroy the railway between Landen and St. Trond to hamper German advance Date: 1914

Inside of a post office-wagon (1854). Illustration published in the magazine La Ilustraci󮧮 Engraving. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. National Library

Steam train arriving at a station at the beginning of 19th c. Illustration by Lluis Bargall󮠗 atercolour

Travel to Scotland by West Coast route
Travel to Scotland by the West Coast route. Euston to the boarders in six hours, luxurious luncheon dining and sleeping cars. Date: 1909

British soldiers looking at German timetable in Mons station
Two British soldiers stand looking at the railway timetable -written in German - at Mons station at the end of the First World War

Staff of the Soldiers Free Buffet at Charing Cross, WW1
Female staff of the Soldiers Free Buffet at Charing Cross Station, set up, along with similar buffets at other London terminus

South of England excursion flyer and timetable
Flyer and timetable advertising a cheap 8 or 15 days excursion to the South of England on Friday 24th May travelling by Lancashire and Yorkshire and Great Northern Railways

Sir R Bulkeley, Vanity Fair, Spy
Thomas George Shaughnessy, 1st Baron Shaughnessy (1853 1923), American-born Canadian railway administrator who rose from modest beginnings as a clerk and bookkeeper for the Milwaukee and St

Samuel Laing (1812 - 1897), English railwayman, chairman of the London and Brighton Railway Company. Promoter of railway excursions

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

SNCF poster, Bretagne, by Roland Goujon. Depicting a Breton couple of Northern France. Date: 1939

Coal depot and railways, Laraquete, Chile

Sir Edgar Speyer (1862-1932), 1st Baronet. American born financier and philanthropist, chairman of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London from 1906 to 1915 and a Privy Councillor

The Camden Town railway: the Minories Viaduct, 1851
The iron viaduct crossing the Minories, London, 1851. An example of an enclosed railway bridge, building to prevent horses in the road beneath taking fright from the noise

The Camden Town railway: Fenchurch Station, 1851
The entrance to Fenchurch Station, 1851. This initial letter marks the start of an article on the Camden Town Railway, which began at Fenchurch Station, and terminated at Hampstead Road

The Camden Town railway: the Bow Spring bridge, Stepney, 1851
The Bow Spring bridge at Stepney Station, London. Designed by L. Clare and constructed by Messrs. Fox and Henderson, the bridge spans the 80 foot width of Commerical Road

The Camden Town railway: the Great Northern Railway viaduct
The viaduct of the Camden Town railway crossing the Direct York railway, as viewed from the bridge at the upper end of Maiden Lane, London in 1851. Copenhagen Fields can be seen on the horizon

Russian advance in Balkans by G. H. Davis
Russias advance in the Balkans during the Second World War: a pictorial map of the terrain. The Eastern Balkans and Carpathian passes: a map showing mountain passes, railways and oilfields. Date: 1944

Railway engines converted to oil fuel by G. H. Davis
Saving coal: mainline railways convert engines to oil fuel. A series of drawings illustrating the conversion of a locomotive. Date: 1946

Empire State Express crossing Salina Street, Syracuse, New York

Exterior view, entrance to Victoria Station, London
Exterior view of the entrance to Victoria Station, London. circa 1912

Railway workers stop for a group photograph

Perth, Caledonian Greyback LMS 14649
Perth, Caledonian " Greyback " LMS 14649. Date: early 1930s

Development of French Africa by G. H. Davis
The vast economic development of French Africa: roads and communications from Algeria to Congo. A contour map of French African possessions under Allied control at this stage of the Second World War

Advert for British Railways 1943
The ever rising tide. War production is rising like the tide and the need for rail transport rises with it. But this increase in traffic is only one of the Railways many wartime loads

London Victoria Train Station in 1902. Exterior view. Date: C. 1902

Sir William G. Granet, Vanity Fair, Spy
SIR WILLIAM GUY GRANET (1867-1943) Italian born, British railway administrator, becoming general manager of the Midland Railway (later the London, Midland and Scottish Railway)

The General Strike - civil constabulary reserve 1926
A unit of new recruits to the new civil constabulary reserve, equipped with steel helmets, truncheons and armlets, leaving headquarters at Buckingham Gate in London during the General Strike

Fencing Girls
Girls of the L.N.E.R. Recreation Club at Liverpool Street, London, enjoying a bout of fencing after a hard day on the railways! Date: 27 June 1933

Samuel Laing, Railways
SAMUEL LAING English railwayman, chairman of the London and Brighton Railway Company, a promoter of railway excursions. Date: 1812 - 1897

Baku, Azerbaijan - Locomotive Shed - Russian Railways. Date: circa 1910

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