Sleeper Collection

Railway Sleeper - Melton Mowbray Station
The Railway Sleeper series - A snoozing Hunstman taking a nap with his foxhound at Melton Mowbray Station! Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

PLM Cote d Azur poster
Travel poster advertising the French Cote d Azur reached by the Paris Lyon Mediteranee railway on a sleeper train

French Wagons-Lit poster
Poster advertising the French National Railways Wagon-Lits (sleeper train) service to Switzerland, Italy and the Cote d Azur

Wagons-Lit company poster
Poster extolling the comforts of travelling by rail when you have luxurious sleeper bunks to relax in

Railway Sleeper - Euston Station
The Railway Sleeper series - A snoozing Scottish football fan at Euston Station awaiting his return train back north of the border. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Railway Sleeper - Crewe Station
The Railway Sleeper series - A snoozing railway porter at Crewe Station. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Railway Sleeper - Marylebone Station
The Railway Sleeper series - A snoozing post young gentleman propped up against a bollard at Marylebone Station after a wild Christmas party! Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

South Manchurian Railway - Interior of the Sleeping Car. Date: circa 1905

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

Rough sleeping, London, early 1900s Date: early 1900s

Nile perch and sleeper fish
Nile perch, Lates niloticus, and sleeper fish or gudgeon, Ophiocara macrolepidota. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

Bristle worms or polychaetes. Splendid fireworm, Hesione splendida 1 and Syllis monilaris 2. Esione lucente, Silli monilare

Advertisement for Southern Railway - Travel while you sleep
Advertisement for Southern Railway - Every night from Victoria - " Good night London" - " Good Morning Paris" - Travel while you sleep by train ferry boat. Date: 1936

French Railway News - Paris-Dijon Speed-up - Electrification shortens the journey, knocking an hour off the old timetable. 1951

Figaro Cartoon, Cards of the Day - John Sleeper Clarke

Orient Express - The Overland Route to Cairo
The overland route to Egypt, the new wonder train which has brought Londoners within a weeks railway journey of Cairo by way of Calais, the Balkans, Aleppo, Beirut, Haifa and Kantara

The Blue Train - illustrated poem
A poem by Joy Garden (and quite a terrible one at that), extolling the virtues of travelling to the French Riviera via the fabled Blue Train

The Railways Reply to Increasing Road Competition
" For the first time in British railway history - sleeping compartments for 3rd class travellers: a sectional view of the new corridor " sleepers" on the L.N.E.R trains to

Homeward Bound - the Rush from the Riviera
Travellers returning from the French Riviera on a crowded train in the Spring of 1910. Such was the exodus from the Cote d Azur

On the Blue Train by Helen McKie
One of the delightful sleeping berths on board the famous Blue Train which provided visitors to the Riviera with the last word in deluxe travel. Date: 1929

The Blue Train to the Riviera - carriage interior
A quiet moment with a magazine in a single-berth sleeping compartment on the famous Blue Train down to the French Riviera. 1923

Caricature of the actor Johns Clarke
Caricature of the American comedian and actor John Sleeper Clarke -- Red Tape. circa 1880s

A Pullman Palace car on the Midland Railway, 1874
Front cover of The Graphic featuring sketches of the interior of a very comfortable looking Pullman car on board a train on the Midland Railway in 1874

Laying Railway Track 30S
Workmen laying a railway track Date: 1930s

Nicholas Hart, the Great Sleeper
Nicholas Hart, known as the Great Sleeper, who slept from 5 to 11 August 1711, though he was suspected of shamming with a view to earning money. Date: 1711

Woman reading in an Electric-lighted sleeper berth on a deluxe overland limited train in America Date: circa 1910

Costume of the Bayeux area, near the sea The
Costume of the Bayeux area, near the sea. The bonnet is called a dormeuse or sleeper.. Handcolored fashion plate illustration from Louis-Marie Lantes Costumes des femmes du Pays de Caux, 1827/1885

Nile perch, Lates niloticus, and sleeper fish or gudgeon, Ophiocara macrolepidota.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles 1816-1830

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

BUNYAN, John (1628-1688). English Christian writer and preacher, who is well known for his book The Pilgrims Progress. Bunyans dream in which he saw the story of Pilgrims Progress. Engraving

Nestl頡dversiting poster of childrens food (1931)
Nestl頡 dversiting poster of childrens food (1931)

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

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

Unhelpful Phrenological assessment of a Park Loafer. Phrenologist (to Park Loafer) - " Now, you re full o Nerves, you are

In the cell. Costumbrism. Painting

A sound sleeper. Illustration shows Sir Thomas Lipton beating a hand-drum labeled American Progress, trying to wake John Bull who is sound asleep in a chair. Date 1903 September 23. A sound sleeper

Vampire bats attack sleepers
Three sleeping men attacked by vampire bats. Date: C.1895

Dining Car - German Railway
A Restaurant car on a sleeper train - Germany. This postcard has a space at the bottom for you to fill in from whence and to where you were travelling from/to. Date: circa 1909

Trans-Siberian Railway - Laying sleepers
Russian navvies laying the log sleepers for the Trans-Siberian Railway Date: circa 1910s

Eight-sleeper bunk in Stalag XXI D
Sketch showing life of British prisoners of war in a German camp during World War Two. The sketch was made in Stalag XXI D in Posen, Poland

Laying railway tracks at night
A very atmospheric shot of a steam engine and cranes aiding the laying of a new set of railway tracks. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Railway Sleeper - Cardiff Station
The Railway Sleeper series - A snoozing Welsh rugby fan at Cardiff Station, delighted that Wales beat France 23-11! Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Railway Sleeper - Grimsby Station
The Railway Sleeper series - A snoozing deep sea fisherman propped up against a bollard at Grimsby Station holding onto his latest catch of a giant cod! Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Railway Sleeper - Kings Cross Station
The Railway Sleeper series - A snoozing tramp at Kings Cross Station dreaming of wealth as he clutches a copy of the Financial Times. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Railway Sleeper - Oxford Station
The Railway Sleeper series - A snoozing University graduate seated on his trunk, nods off at Oxford Station as he studies a map of the London Underground

Railway Sleeper - Bath Station (Christmas)
The Railway Sleeper series - A snoozing Tramp at Bath Station at Christmas. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Railway Sleeper - Downham Market Station
The Railway Sleeper series - A snoozing Farmer at Downham Market Station awaiting his return train back north of the border. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Railway Sleeper - Aberystwyth Station
The Railway Sleeper series - A snoozing Welsh shepherd takes forty winks leaning up against his crook, sitting on a wooden crate at Aberystwyth Station, his trusty Collie sheepdog at his feet

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