Track Collection (page 28)

Main haulage track, Tirpentwys Colliery, South Wales
A miner stands alongside the main haulage track or road at Tirpentwys Colliery, near Pontypool in South Wales

Glyn Pits, Pontypool, South Wales
External view of the Glyn Pits in Pontypool, South Wales

Various tank track designs, as used during the First World War

New tank design, inspection and testing
A new tank design undergoing inspection and testing during the First World War

Testing a new tracked vehicle
Soldiers field testing a new tracked vehicle during the First World War -- it doesn t appear to be very stable on uneven ground

Soldiers building a battlefield railway track
A group of soldiers building a railway track across a battlefield during the First World War

End of broad gauge, 1892
Brunels Great Western Railway pioneered the broad gauge from 1838 until 1892 when the final break with broad gauge took place. Here, the engineers are shown converting the tracks to dual gauge

Elderly couple on a country walk
An elderly couple going for a country walk down a sloping track

Spring Street Subway, New York
Express trains at Spring Street Subway, New York City, America

Pacific Electric Railway, on the way to Pasadena, California, America

View down a railway line, Iraq
View down a railway line crossing the desert, somewhere in Iraq

Filling large fuel barrels - Hackney Wick
A factory employee checks progress as large barrels are filled with fuel oil at Hackney Wick, London

Shimla, India - Kalka to Shimla Railway
General view with Kalka to Shimla Railway of Shimla, originally called Simla, the capital city of Himachal Pradesh. In 1864, Shimla was declared the summer capital of the British Raj in India

Georgia, Surami - Railway sidings and tunnel

Georgia - Georgian Military Road - Station at Mlet
The Georgian Military Road is the historic name for a major route through the Caucasus from Georgia to Russia. Station at Mlet

Georgia - Batumi - Workers at a quarry
Quarry workers mining one of the many seams of good quality stone to be found in the area around Batumi (formerly Batum or Batoum), a city on the Black Sea coast and capital of Adjara

Caterpillar track trials WWI
Trials of the American caterpillar-tractor intended to draw heavy artillery at Vincennes during World War I

Clarksville, Georgia
Street Scene in Clarksville, Georgia - July, 1888

Railway junction in the morning mist
A superb atmospheric photograph looking across a complicated railway junction. From the collection of a Scottish rail accident investigator

Railway junction in the morning mist (alternate version)
A superb atmospheric photograph looking across a complicated railway junction. From the collection of a Scottish rail accident investigator

Evocative Railway scene with Cooling Towers. Two small steam engines in a sding close to a Power Station and a signal box in Scotland

The Steam Train Deepdene at Dundee on 22nd June, 1949

Rail troop transport WWI
Troops are transported along the rail track between Hango and Helsinki during World War I in Finland

Norfolk landscape
A orfolk landscape. Watercolour paining by Raymond Sheppard

Saint Malo, France - Le Pont Roulant
Le Pont Roulant at Saint Malo - a remarkable track-mounted ferry bridge, enabling the crossing at high tide between the hold of the Exchange, Saint Malo to Naye of Saint-Servan

Tunisia - Carthage with Railway Train
Carthage - view of the Ancient Ports and the Railway Line - Tunisia

Laying railway track
Gangs of railway labourers work on the laying of a new section of track running beneath a bridge. The lamps held by the navvies cast spectral traces of light across the gloomy atmospheric scene

Track laying - using a bulldozer
A Caterpillar bulldozer being operated during track laying by the Wimpey construction company. Nightime engineering works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Butt Welding railway rails
A fantastic colour photograph showing the sparks flying up during the butt welding of railway rails. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Summit of Hex River Pass - South African Railways
A classic feat of railway construction in South Africa - the summit of the Hex River Pass on the South African Railways

Turkish Prisoners being transported
Turkish prisoners being sent from Junction Station, Cairo in a captured Turkish Ottoman Empire train - World War One

Trackside Sellers of Sweetbreads
Selling of a selection of sweetbreads at the side of railway track, Turkey

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

A Driver Climbs in to his Cab
A train driver climbs into the cabin of his diesel locomotive. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Laying Railway Tracks
Three construction workers guide a large rail into position. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Peasant man with horse
A peasant working man in Istanbul on the Asian side of the Bosphorus stands with his white horse carrying two large metal containers on either flank

Turkish street scene - Istanbul
Typical back street scene in Constantinople in the 1920s. Mud, rubble and wooden houses predominate the view

Narrow Gauge Swiss Railway -1905
A narrow gauge railway in Switzerland - the Brunigbahn Railway

Laying railway line 1917
British troops laying a railway line near Bailleul in France on the British front during World War I on 26th May 1917

Motor racing
A crowd of spectators watch cars race around the track, probably at Brooklands, home of British motor racing in the 1920s

View down an English valley
A view looking down a lush verdant green English valley, past a small wooden stile. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Riding in the English countryside
A couple out riding on a country lane on an Autumn day. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey - Quay & Port
A section of the Quayside and the entrance to the port at Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey

Argentina - Railway Station, Rosario

Making a jeep railroad - Burma
Making a jeep railroad. A supply line constructed by Indian engineers to run to Mandalay in readiness for expansion further south into Burma

Scene on a road in Pakistan
Scene on a track in a province formerly in North-west India, which now forms part of modern-day Pakistan. A man and a woman travel together, the woman seted on a donkey, her face completely covered

Transporting wood - India
Wooden ox-pulled carts filled with wood pause at the roadside in the Madhya Pradesh Province, India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Rusyn People - Hungary
Rusyns - an Eastern Slavic ethnic group who speak an Eastern Slavic language (or dialect) known as Rusyn. This appears to be a team working on a railway in the Carpathian Mountain region of Hungary

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