Switchback Collection

Switchback at Blackpool
People riding the switchback, which opened in 1891, at Blackpool Amusement Park, Lancashire, England. Date: 1950s

Switchback, Butlin s
Figure 8 switchback at Butlins Holiday Camp, Mablethorpe. Built in France, the ride was originally sited at Butlins Skegness camp

Soller Road, Mallorca (Majorca), Spain
A winding hillside road on the island of Mallorca (Majorca), Spain - The Soller Road. Date: circa 1930

SWITCHBACK FATALITY
Antoine Friley is flung from a switchback car at Saint-Cloud, on the outskirts of Paris : the poor fellow dies instantaneously 1891

Fashionable woman with speculators or agioteurs, Paris
Fashionable woman with a group of speculators or agioteurs, Paris. A one-legged Revolutionary soldier stands guard. Stock jobbing at the Palais Royal, Year VII, 1799. Handcoloured lithograph by R.V

Advert for Spiers & Ponds Stores - Toys 1902
Advertisement for early Edwardian outdoor toys. Date: 1902

A car rushes round the loop at the Switchback on the pier at Atlantic City, America. Date: 1901

Duke & Duchess of York, Prince of Wales, Amusements
The Duke & Duchess of York and the Prince of Wales enjoy a rollercoaster ride on the Giant Switchback at the Amusements, Wembley, May 1924. Date: 1924

Switchback railway, Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, USA
Switchback railway, near Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, USA. A gravity narrow gauge railroad at the Summit Hill coalmines, used by the company to transport coal in trucks to the village across

The Switchback Railway, Folkestone, Kent
The Switchback Railway, Folkestone, near Hythe, Kent, England. Date: 1910s

Switchback on the Great Northern Railway, Washington State
A switchback section of the Great Northern Railway in the Cascade Mountains. It consists of a series of zigzags up the mountainside

John Studts Grand Gondola Switchback ride
John Studt of Cardiff - his Grand Gondola Motor Switchback ride Date: circa 1906

Switzerland - Switchback turn on the Sustenstrasse, built between 1938-1945 - in the Cantons of Bern & Uri. Date: circa 1940s

Summit Hill Railway Station, Carbon, Pennsylvania, USA. Mauch Chunk (Now Jim Thorpe), Summit Hill & Switchback Railroad Date: 1910s

Lyon, France - International Exhibition (4 / 7)
The Palace of Horticulture and the gardens at the International Exhibition held at Lyon, France in 1914. Date: 1914

Switchback Road - Montenegro
Switchback Road from Kotor to Cetinje - Montenegro Date: circa 1910s

Montenegro - Kotor (Cattaro) - location showing the steep slopes to the south east of the town and the winding switchback road leading upwards... Date: circa 1910s

Topsy-Turvy Railway
The Topsy-Turvy Railway at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham (south-east London)

Fair / Switchback, 1910
Waddingtons Scenic Railway - switchback ride at Hull Fair

Switchback Railway, 1909
Switchback Railway at Barry in Glamorgan, South Wales

Switchback, Folkestone
Switchback at Folkestone, Kent

Skating Switchback 1909
Daring roller skaters risking life and limb to have a go on the " Skating Switchback", part of the Empress Skating Rink at Earls Court, London. Up to 4200 could skate on this rink

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