Sleepers Collection

City of Living Dead
CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD (L Manning and F Pratt) Virtual reality foreseen : these sleepers choose to live adventures transmitted to them by sensory control

Dymchurch Light Railway
The Green Goddess, a locomotive on the The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Light Railway (a miniature railway), Kent, England, pulling out of a station

COURBET, Gustave (1819-1877). The Sleepers, or Sleep. Realism. Oil on canvas

Vagrants asleep in Green Park, Central London
During their daytime opening hours, Londons parks provided a pleasant place for the citys tramps and vagrants to sleep. Green Park, shown here, was typical

Horse-Drawn Railway / 1820
Birkinshaws horse-drawn railway, characteristic of those in general use at this time

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

Blaenavon, South Wales, retired miner
A retired coal miner walks along the railway track with his mongrel dog at Blaenavon, South Wales. In the background is a redundant steam locomotive. First published in The Sunday Times in 1988. 1988

Improvised Bridge, near Cordoba; Spanish Civil War, 1936
Photograph showing an improvised bridge, made of wooden sleepers, at Constantina, near Cordoba, 1936. The bridge had been blown up by Republican troops to try to slow down the Nationalist advance

Spirits seek to waken travellers sleeping at sea
Spirits of the dead seek to waken travellers sleeping at sea - but the sleepers sleep on, and the spirits wail in vain, forgotten

The sleepers are very beautiful as they lie unclothed Date: 1913

Homeless men sleeping on Southwark Bridge, London 1900
Homeless men sleeping rough in London. Date: 1900

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)

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

Homeless men by J O Brien
No-goods or might-be-goods? The Faces of the Night. Victims of our social system or of their own faults? Men of the under-world Character sketches of homeless men to be seen each night sleeping in

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

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

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

Flying Scotsman in a railway station
The famous Flying Scotsman steam locomotive in a railway station

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

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

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

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

Brtish troops constructing a railway track, WW1
British troops constructing a railway track across a swamp on the Western Front in France during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

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)

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

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

Tunnel for the Paris Metro - Seine
Tunnel cut for the Paris Metro under the River Seine - the convergence of two branches of the underground railway

Railway Line Construction - laying ballast
Ballast is fed down a long conveyor belt into the laying machine, which moves slowly along the railway line under construction under the watchful eye of an engineer. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Sleeper Cutters Camp in Australia for cutting railway sleepers

The Express Train passing a signal-box at high speed

Australian Railway
The railway which connects Kalgoorlie (West) with Port Augusta (South), through the Nullarbor Plain, Australia, runs 330 miles without a curve. Built between 1925 and 1930

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