Track Collection (page 10)

Volos, Greece - Capital of Magnesia - Rue Demetriados
Rue Demetriados, Volos - a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about 330km north of Athens and 220km south of Thessaloniki

Freighting on the Cariboo Highway, Near Lytton, BC, Canada
Horse-drawn freight wagons in the Early Days on the Cariboo Highway, Near Lytton, British Columbia, Canada. Date: circa 1910s

Construction of the Mont Blanc Tramway, France
Team of workers working on the construction of the Rogues line - Mont Blanc Tramway, France. Date: circa 1905

Tourist transportation through the Gemmi pass, Switzerland
Tourist transportation through the Gemmi pass (Gemmipass or Passage de la Gemmi) - a Swiss pass culminating at 2, 314m above sea level. Date: circa 1907

San Salvador, Aculhuaca Road with Horse Railway
San Salvador - The Road to Aculhuaca Road. Note the interesting early Horse Railway back left. Date: circa 1905

The Visp-Zermatt Railway Line by River Rhone, Switzerland
Spectacular scenery on the Visp-Zermatt Railway Line, Switzerland - passing here alongside the Rapids of the young River Rhone. Date: circa 1920s

Gornergrat Station - Views of Gabelhorn, Rothorn & Weisshorn, Switzerland. Date: circa 1930s

Duchess of York inspects Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Duchess of York (as Colonel-in-Chief) inspects the First Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry at Tidworth in October 1934. Shown here inspecting a Whippet tank

Racing at Brooklands in the 1930s
Racing cars at Brooklands whizzing around the track. Date: 1932

Khojak Tunnel and railway, Balochistan, British India
Khojak Tunnel (Shela Bagh Tunnel) on the Quetta railway, Qilla Abdullah District, Balochistan Province, British India (now in Pakistan), near the border with Afghanistan. Date: circa 1910s

Map of the Suez Canal, Egypt
Map of the Suez Canal in Egypt showing the water way from the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea which was constructed in the 19th century by the Suez Canal Company founded by Ferdinand de Lesseps

Special train engine and carriage of the Egyptian Khedive
The Khedives Special in driving. It was built by R. Stephenson & Sons in 1862 and is used by the Khedive of Egypt when he moves his Court between his summer palace of Montaza and Alexandria

Kursaal Casino in Cairo, Egypt
Street with tram lines in front of the Kursaal Casino in Cairo, capital of Egypt. Date: circa 1910

Couple on an early 1900s vintage motorcycle, 1900s
Man & woman posing for photograph on an unknown vintage motorcycle beside a railway track, early 1900s

Transporting supplies, Schaedels Farm, Lindi, WW1
Transporting supplies on a mini railway at Schaedels Farm, a place of relaxation for exhausted soldiers near Lindi, East Africa, during WW1. 1917

Orient Express - Map of the Overland Route to Cairo
Eliminating the Mediterranean Voyage in the journey to Egypt - The Overland Route to Cairo. The Map of the overland route shows the train line through Western Europe through to Turkey

Railway Station as abandoned by the Turks - Aleppo, Syria
Railway Station as abandoned by the remnants of the Ottoman Empires Yildirim Army Groups (commanded by Mustafa Kemal Pasha - Ataturk) following the Battle of Aleppo, fought on 25th October 1918

Coal Mines, Coalisland, Co. Tyrone - a view of the coal mine buildings beside a railway track. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Tyrone; Coalisland). Date: circa early 1900s

Wooden tray. C. 48000 BC. fromr ockshelter of Abric Romani
Wooden tray. C. 48000 BC. from rockshelter of Abric Romani. Middle Paleolithic. Capellades. Catalonia. Spain

Cow riding on a train
A Deadhead Passenger. How an intelligent animal refused to be butted off the track by the cowcatcher, and stole a free ride on the railroad. Date: 1883

Union Pacific Streamliner train, City of Los Angeles
Union Pacific Streamliner luxury train, named the City of Los Angeles, operating between Chicago and Los Angeles in just under 42 hours. Date: circa 1937

African Elephant - Sitting in the middle of the track feeding on grass (Loxodonta africana). Kruger National Park - South Africa

General Guderian with Enigma machine
General Heinz Guderian in his armoured half-track command vehicle. To the lower left of the picture is his Enigma coding machine. Date: 1941

Grass Snake - tracks in sand dunes - desert (Natrix natrix). Caspian sea shore - near Krasnovodsk -Turkmenistan. Spring - April

Shearing shed, Burrawang Station, Australia
Shearing shed, Burrawang Station, New South Wales, Australia. Date: circa 1890s

Bomb damaged street during WW2
A bomb damaged street in Germany during the Second World War, with rubble piled up on either side of the road. Date: circa 1940s

World map 1784 showing the Cook Voyages
A general chart exhibiting the discoveries made by Captain James Cook in this and his preceeding voyages with tracks of the ships under his command

London Fire Brigade motorcycle dispatch riders training, WW2
LCC-LFB junior dispatch riders under instruction by a Brigade instructor at the New Cross speedway track in South London on 28 June 1940

Monaco Grand Prix Poster - 1948
Monaco Grand Prix Poster - held on the 16th May 1948. The race was won by Giuseppe Farina in a Maserati. 1948

Coal train, Great Western Railway, South Wales
A one hundred truck coal train on the Great Western Railway, somewhere in South Wales. The trucks belong to the John Lancaster & Co colliery company of Nant-y-glo (Nantyglo), and bear a griffin symbol

Men with dram, Elliot Colliery, New Tredegar, South Wales
Two men hauling a dram (truck) full of coal from a cage at the pithead of the Elliot Colliery, New Tredegar, Rhymney Valley, South Wales

Men with dram, Hook Colliery, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
Three men with a loaded dram (truck) of coal at Hook Colliery, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, South Wales

Sports Day / Running 1950S
A very determined-looking boy runs along the track. A group of schoolboys, watch him, some in shorts, others in school uniform

Southend express train, London, Tilbury & Southend Railway
Southend express train, on the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway. Date: circa early 20th century

Quayside at Tjilatjap (Cilacap), Central Java, Indonesia
Quayside on the Donan River at Tjilatjap (Cilacap), Central Java, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). With steamships and railway track, serving the sugar industry. Date: circa 1908

Steam locomotive at Scout Green, near Tebay, Cumbria, well known for its steep gradient. circa 1960s

Steam engines near service shed, Exeter St David s
Steam engines outside a service shed at Exeter St David s, Devon. circa 1960s

Kadugannawa Railway Station, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Aerial view (from Dawson Tower), Kadugannawa Railway Station, Kandy District, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1930

North Sea Camp Borstal Institution, Lincolnshire
North Sea Camp Borstal Institution at Freiston, Lincolnshire. Boys with spades at work reclaiming land from the sea. Small wagons with hoppers run on a railway track. Date: circa 1945

Giant Powder Works, Point Pinole, California, USA
Giant Powder Works, an explosive powder (gunpowder) manufacturing company in Point Pinole, Richmond, California, USA. Date: circa 1892

Southern Railway Firemen
Firefighters working for Southern Railway spray water onto the roof of a train. Southern Railway employed eighty A.F.S. men in order to fight fires caused by Luftwaffe incendiary bombs. 1940

View of Kumasi, Ghana, Gold Coast, West Africa
View of Kumasi, including part of the railway station, Ghana, Gold Coast, West Africa. Date: circa 1915

Halesowen railway station, Dudley, West Midlands. Date: circa 1910

Engine no. 600, Virginian Railway Company, USA
Engine no. 600, Virginian Railway Company, Princeton, West Virginia, USA. Date: circa 1910

Go Greyhound Racing at White City, 1939
Advertorial for greyhound racing at White City showing a kennel man (wearing a Greyhound Racing Association jacket) with two fine looking dogs. Date: 1939

Velodrome and city of Luanda, Angola, West Africa
Velodrome and city of Luanda, capital of Angola, Portuguese West Africa. Date: circa 1910s

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