Steam Collection (page 97)

Ice-cutting Machine
A late 19th century Steam-powered Ice-cutting Machine operating on the frozen exoanse of the St Lawrence River, Canada. Possibly one of historys more risky undertakings for an apparatus of this

Steam train leaving Euston Station
A train leaves Euston Station for the north, filling the atmosphere with a large plume of white steam

Locomotive construction in a large railway shed
A steam locomotive is moved across a large shed by means of a large crane arm with pulleys and chains. The lower section of the photograph shows a more complete locomotive

The Terraces - Monte Carlo with departing Steam Packet

Spiral Tunnels, British Columbia, Canada
Lower portal of Number Two tunnel, Spiral Tunnels, Field, British Columbia, Canada. The locomotive is passing under the train it is pulling! The tunnel opened in 1909

Poster advertising Norway via Royal Mail
Poster for the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, advertising trips to Norway and northern capitals. Luxury cruises on the SS Arcadian

Bowness Ferry Boat
The departing Bowness Ferry boat on the way to Furness Abbey, transporting two horse-drawn carriages across Lake Windermere, Cumbria

Poster advertising the Woermann Line, with services from Germany to Africa and America

Preliminary preparation for a road surface
A mechanical steam-powered digger by the M.M Barrat brothers is used to break the ground in preparation for a road to be constructed

Royal Mail Atlantis Cruises poster
Poster advertising a cruise on the RMSP Atlantis with the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, featuring a smiling young woman in what looks like a North African location, carrying a water urn

British Colombia border over to the Yukon
The British Colombia border over to the Yukon - The Royal Canadian Northwest Mounted Police steam launch Gladys on a windy arm of the Tagish Lake

RMS Olympic, Queens Hotel Queenstown
Two items relating to the RMS Olympic luxury cruise liner. An information card for the Queens Hotel, Queenstown (on the southern coast of Ireland) boasts of redecoration

White Star Line, SS Olympic window sketches
A White Star Line handwritten booklet entitled Particulars of Oceanic Steam Navigation Co, SS Olympic, May 1911. The vessel returned to the shipyard in Belfast in October 1911 for alterations

Clan Mackenzie steamship on the Suez Canal, Egypt
The Clan Mackenzie steamship on the Suez Canal, Egypt. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Funnel of an unidentified steamship
The funnel of an unidentified steamship. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Queen Mary medal
A commemorative medal made by the Royal Mint, marking the launch of the Queen Mary cruise ship in 1935

St Johns Newfoundalnd - Harbour and City
The Harbour and city - view of St John s, Newfoundland

Bulgarian State Steamships - The Boris and the Bulgaria. Prince Boris and a Bulgarian soldier are also pictured. This young Prince was to become Boris III the Unifier, Tsar of Bulgaria (1894 - 1943)

Increase in rail fares
The New Dragonades Or, How to squeeze money out of the working-man. Dedicated to Liberal" -minded Directors." Two steam trains with dragons heads crush working men beneath their wheels

An extraordinary railway accident
A woman is thrown onto a locomotive after a collision with her cart at Shelford, Cambridgeshire. The terrified woman clings onto a rail at the front of the train as it continues to steam along

Coaling a Royal Mail steam packet at Kingston, Jamaica
Scene at the harbour in Kingston, Jamaica, showing lines a women carrying baskets of coal on their heads on board a Royal Mail steam packet ship

Lake Lucerne, Switzerland - Brunnen
The south east end of Lake Lucerne, Switzerland - Brunnen - The Quay

Livingstones steamer in sections at Birkenhead
The steam launch, Lady Nyassa, funded entirely by Livingstone, is seen being loaded, in sections, at Birkenhead from where it will journey to the Zambesi in Africa

Mirage in the Baltic
Mirage of the English fleet in the Baltic, observed from the steam-frigate The Archer

HARWICH, Essex
Steam and sailing vessels in the channel port of Harwich, Essex

Foundering of the Union Companys Mail Steam-Ship American
This image depicts the loss of the steam ship American which sunk near Cape Palmas on 23rd April 1880

The Bhore Ghaut incline, India
A steam train makes its way across the Kummalee viaduct on the Bhore Ghaut incline on the Great Indian Penisular Railway. At the time of its construction

Road, Rail and Sea - Charles Robinson
Cover illustration by Charles Robinson for the Childrens book Rad, Rail and Sea by Clare Jerrold. A (very young-looking!) couple drive an open car below the imposing buly of a railway bridge

The Express Train passing a signal-box at high speed

The arrival of an Express train at Constantinople. The route depicted to Constantinople started at Palestine

Steam ferryboat on the Bosphorus near Bebek returning to Istanbul

Suez Canal - The Railway Station at Suez

The Autotrain on the County Down Railway, Northern Ireland. The Autotrain was a type of passenger train used in the early 20th century

Firenze. Italy
Firenze, Italy. S. Domenico street and a view of Fiesole

Steam Furniture Removal vans, Pimlico, London
Bishop & Sons Steam-powered Furniture Removal van, Hugh Street, Pimlico, London

The General Strike - travelling by trailer
Londoners travelling by a steam-wagon and trailer combination past the Royal Exchange in the City of London during the General Strike

The Goliah steamer paying out the electric wire
The first submarine electric telegraphic despatch from Dover to Cape Grinez, near Calais. Here, the cable is laid out as the Goliah steam ship sails from England to France

Fishing for Pilchards, 1871
Engraving showing a group of fishermen, with rowing boat and steam launch, fishing for pilchards off the coast of Britain, 1871

Thames Embankment, London, 1863
Engraving showing the steam boat landing pier which was proposed and designed by J.W. Bazalgette, to be constructed between Waterloo and Blackfriars Bridges, London, 1863

High Commissioners Yacht, River Tigris, Iraq
The British High Commissioners Yacht on the River Tigris, Iraq

The Crowd at Greenwich for the passing of the Great Eastern
Engraving showing the scene at the Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, as huge crowds assembled to watch I.K. Brunels steamship Great Eastern steam down the River Thames, 1859

Romanian Troops attacking Ghemesh Station, Austro-Hungaria
Illustration showing the surprise attack launched by Romanian troops on Ghemesh railway station in Austro-Hungaria, 1916. On the first day of hostilities between these two countries the Romanians

Emigration. Cheer Boys Cheer An Emigrant Ship Leaving Harb
Engraving of ship leaving the dock, steam pouring from the funnel. Everyone on shore and on the boat waving farewell. A winter scene

Port Madryn, Nuevo Gulf, Patagonia, 1887
Engraving of the coast-line of Port Madryn, with a schooner in the foreground and a steam train in the background, a remote area of South America (now Argentina)

Emigration. From New to Old England, in the Inman Steamer C
Interior of the steam ship, engraving shows a small gathering in the saloon for a religious service lead by the Captain of the ship

Emigration. Departure of the Nimrod and Athlone Steamers
Emigrants set sail from Cork for Liverpool in the first stage of their transatlantic jouney. Dock side with exterior of two steam ships

LIVERPOOL DOCKS / 1890 S
View of the landing-stage at Liverpool Docks with passenger steam ships, people and baggage

Harrisons Ice Making Machine, 1858
Engraving showing the ice making machine, designed by Mr. Harrison of Geelong, Australia, 1858. Built by Mr. Siebe of Denmark Street, Soho, London

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