Railways Collection (page 15)

Railways scraps Date: circa 1953

Lasalle St Station
LaSalle Street station, Chicago, terminal for the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, Lackawanna, New York Central & New York, Chicago and St Louis railways. 1930s ?

Chicago Union Station
(under construction) - terminal of Pennsylvania, Burlington, Alton and St Paul railways - estimated cost 65 million dollars. Date: 1916

Snowdon Mountain Rly
The easiest way to the summit of Snowdon, Waless highest mountain, is to take the mountain railway. There are hotels when you get there. Date: 1908

Pune India - The Railway Junction
Pune (Poona) India - The Railway Junction Date: circa 1907

The Doveholes
The Dove Holes caves, Dovedale, Derbyshire, England. Between 1860 and 1865, Midland Railways built a tunnel here. It was an arduous task and the navvies lived in these caves. Date: 1950s

Princess Elizabeth drives the royal train, Canada, 1951
Princess Elizabeth taking over the controls of the royal train, while on the way to Edmonton, ALberta, with the Duke of Edinburgh acting as Fireman, during the Royal tour of Canada

Works of the Midland Railway near Kings Cross Date: 1867

Great Western, Marigold Steam Train, Flower Class Locomotive 4163 1908

Bandits attack an express train in America Date: c. 1870

Running Shed - GWR Railway at Old Oak Common
Stunning photographic postcard of locomotives at rest in the Running Shed of the Great Western Railway at Old Oak Commons. Date: circa 1908

Commerce / Shares
A stockbrokers office during the Railway Mania when people were falling over themselves to buy shares in the new railways in Britain Date: circa 1850

The last steam engine at Carnforth
Tradesmen at Carnforth standing in front of their engine. Left to right: boiler washer, Norman Wilson; firedropper, Norman Cottier; bar lad, Tommy Longstaffe; driver, Joe Harrison; and steamraiser

Brooklyn Rapid Transit. Head-on view of the Cypress Hills train of Brooklyn Rapid Transit

BRT Bergen Street
Bergen St. Billiard Room. Men in uniform playing billiards in the Brooklyn Rapid Transits Bergen St. Clubhouse billiard room

BRT Crosstown Depot, New York
Crosstown Depot. Brookyn Rapid Transits Crosstown Depot with men on the sidewalk

BRT 58th St. Depot, New York
58th St. Depot. Brookyn Rapid Transits 58th St. Depot/Clubhouse, with a street car and two employees visible in front of the depot

BRT Club House
B.R.T. 58th St. Club House. - Men in uniform playing billiards in the Brooklyn Rapid Transits 58th St. Clubhouse billiard room

BRT Flatbush Depot, New York
Canarsie Club Room. Men in uniform posed behind a pool table in the Brooklyn Rapid Transits Canarsie Clubhouse billiard room

BRT Mens building
Reading Room. Railroad Mens Building. - Uniformed men sitting around tables reading in the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Railroad Mens Building reading room

BRT Canarsie Depot, New York
Canarsie Depot. Brookyn Rapid Transits Canarsie Depot, with employees visible in front of depot, street car emerging

BRT railway building
Bath Rooms. Railroad Mens Building. - Stalls in a bathroom of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit mens building

BRT Band
Locker Room. Railroad Mens Building. - Members of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Employees Benefit Association Band in the locker room of the mens building

Instruction Train
Instruction Car. Interior. - Interior of a railroad instruction car of Brooklyn Rapid Transit; car is lined with equipment for instruction, four men are visible beyond

BRTEBA office
Secretarys Office B.R.T.E.B.A. Interior of the secretarys office of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Employees Benefit Association; two men are sated at desks, calendar for February 19

The spirit of England at work: railway and dock volunteers
Volunteers on the railways during the General Strike. The ILN reports that Nothing was more remarkable during the General Strike than the skill and efficiency with which the railways were carried

NIMT Railway, New Zealand
A Bush Settlement on the NIMT, North Island Main Trunk, Railway in New Zealand

Scenic railway, Katoomba, Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia

Brisbane Railway Station, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Atherton, Queensland
The Railway Station at Atherton, Queensland, Australia

Baby Gauge Railway at widow Borax mine, Ryan
Baby Gauge Railway at widow Borax mine at Ryan, Death Valley, California

Locomotive construction at Swindon
Various scenes depicting the construction of the Great Western Railway at the Swindon Works

Best Through Cooks, rail and steamer services
Poster or handbill design for Best Through Cooks, travel by British Railways rail and steamer services, showing a Mediterranean beach scene with boats, two wine glasses and a bottle, a green shutter

Mount Lowe scenic railway climbing to Cloudland, California, America

Pacific Electric Railway, on the way to Pasadena, California, America

Los Angeles Terminal Railway postcard

An angle in the Canal at Empire, Panama Canal

The Present Time - 60 miles an hour
Embroidery picture showing a steam engine pulling several carriages at a speed of 60 miles per hour

French Railways Poster for London
Poster by the French National Railways advertising their service from Paris to London departing daily to the ports of Rouen, Dieppe or Newhaven

Steam Engine by their locomotive shed - Scotland
An aerial view looking down on a group of working steam locomotive some entering and someexiting their shed. From the collection of a Scottish rail accident investigator

Railway Sidings
A moody photograph of a set of very dark railway sidings, with a sole sentinel signal box and a couple of small shunting steam engines, just beginning their days work

Minaki, Holiday resort 1929
Reproduction of a booklet cover design for the Canadian National Railways Holiday Resort, located in Minaki, Ontario, showing male and female golfers

Railwayman with black-out lamp
The green signal light of a guard on the railway is shaded with a hood in the wartime black-out as World War Two begins

Cannon Street Station - London
The elegant facade of Cannon Street Station - London - designed by Sir John Hawkshaw and J.W. Barry. A fine building, sadly heavily damaged during the Second World War

Camp-Fire concert at a reserve in South Africa
A Camp-fire concert in a big game reserve in South Africa. A scene in the Kruger National Park, as tourists and rangers surround a camp fire and enjoy some musical entertainment

Summit of Hex River Pass - South African Railways
A classic feat of railway construction in South Africa - the summit of the Hex River Pass on the South African Railways

Poster advertising Valencay
Poster for French railways advertising the chateaux of the Loire, in particular Valencay

Poster advertising Cheverny
Poster for French railways, advertising Cheverny, one of the chateaux of the Loire

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