Trains Collection (page 12)

Canadian Pacific Steamers and Trains
Canadian Pacific is the only line operating its own Steamers and Trains -- The Empress of Scotland (above), a Canadian Pacific Transcontinental Train leaving Montreal (below). Date: circa 1930s

Tuskless Elephant trained in Myanmar
Tuskless Elephant (Hind) trained in Myanmar by the Karens. The Karen (Kayin, Kariang or Yang people) reside primarily in Karen State in southern and southeastern Myanmar

Find the Fault card No. 22 -- steam train. circa 1930s

Future New York - The City of Skyscrapers - with high-level roads and railways and numerous flying craft. Date: 1916

A Pullman Palace car on the Midland Railway, 1874
Front cover of The Graphic featuring sketches of the interior of a very comfortable looking Pullman car on board a train on the Midland Railway in 1874

Euston Station 1950
People wait for their trains at Euston station Date: 26 September 1950

German Ladies 1425
Kirtles with trains worn with a houppelande with funnel sleeves which hang in loose folds or a short gown with fitted bodice & a dagged ? mantle & girdle. Date: 1425

Page from a catalogue toy trains and cars 1929
A seletion of British made wooden and polished aluminium trains, cars, vans and cranes. Products available from the Harrods catalogue toy department. Date: 1929

Loading the Mail Train
A Royal Mail train service is loaded with post bags. Date: circa 1970

Horse Tram Birkenhead
Opening of the horsedrawn street railway or tram service from Birkenhead Park to Woodside Ferry, Merseyside as pioneered by eccentric businessman, George Francis Train (1829-1904)

Cajun Pass Ascended
Two powerful engines are required to haul trains up to the summit of Cajun Pass, on the Santa Fe line : behind lies the Mohave Desert, ahead is welcoming California. Date: 1923

Head-On Collision
Two trains of the Ligne du Nord meet face to face near Arras, with distressing consequences for the coaches and wagons, though the two locomotives survive ! Date: 1864

French troop train in World War One at a station
A French military troop train stops at a rural station, somewhere in France, and takes on refreshments and supplies at the military station canteen. Date: 1917

Leaving Elstree Tunnel
The Midland Railways Leeds and Bradford express leaves Elstreet Tunnel on its way to Yorkshire. Date: circa 1913

Bricklayers Arms Stn
The newly completed Bricklayers Arms station is the terminus of the South Eastern Railway, whose trains are not yet able to cross the river into central London. Date: 1844

Metro Construction
Construction : building the great caisson which will then be sunk to carry trains beneath the Seine at the Place Saint- Michel, in the centre of the city Date: 1906

Paris fashion plate 1878
Silk Christmas and New Years party dresses. Hair arranged high, the front parted and waved, or the ends curved forward in crescent shape on the forehead, chignon on the nape of the neck. Date: 1878

Crash at Meudon 1842
At Meudon, on the Versailles line, two trains collide with fearful consequences Date: 8 May 1842

1849 Royal Coach
The Royal Family in the Royal Coach. Date: 1849

Royal Coach / Ireland 1847
The Royal Family in the Royal Coach for the Irish trip in 1847. Date: 1847

Boston Subway 1892
Double-decker trains on the proposed subway station at Boston, Massachusetts. Date: 1892

French Train & Driver
A train and its driver. Date: 1898

Grand Junction Railway train factory
Grand Junction Railway engine- works at Crewe : the erecting shop Date: 1849

Puffing Billy, Hedleys improved Wylam engine
Hedleys improved Wylam engine, known as Puffing Billy Date: 1813

The Royal Train at Elgin
Queen Victorias Royal Train at Elgin (visiting Dunrobin). Date: 1872

Goods transporter at Manchester Station
An overhead transporter carries goods to the appropriate platform at Manchester Station. Date: 1892

Bournemouth Express
The Southern Railways Waterloo to Bournemouth express is drawn by the Schools Class Eton locomotive. Date: 1926

Posada, Music cover, La Locomotora
Music cover, La Locomotora -- The Locomotive, collection of modern songs, published by Arsacio Vanegas Arroyo. Date: circa 1895

Platform scene at Marylebone Station, London
Platform scene at Marylebone Station, Great Central Railway, London, with trains and passengers. Date: circa 1910

Locomotive manufacture - Great Western Railway, Swindon
Steam locomotive manufacturing processes in the works of the Great Western Railway (GWR), Swindon Date: 1854

Compound passenger locomotive Queen Empress, 2054, America, British train built in 1893, sent to the Chicago Exhibition the same year. It was painted white in honour of Queen Victorias 1897 Jubilee

Union Pacific goods locomotive 1655, America Date: circa 1910

Grand express locomotive, America, causing the bison to run away. Date: circa 1900

New York City, USA - Bowery and Doubledeck Elevated Railroad Date: circa 1910s

Cover of Der Eisenbahner - Volume 1
Striking embossed Cover of Der Eisenbahner - Volume 1, featuring a train cum dragon speeding out of the cover in a shower of sparks and plumes of smoke and team.. Date: 1902

Departure Platform - Hastings Station, East Sussex SE&CR (South Eastern & Chatham Railway). Date: circa 1910s

Paddy The Next Best Thing by W Gayer Mackey & Robert Ord
Promotional postcard for Paddy The Next Best Thing by W. Gayer Mackey and Robert Ord from Gertrude Pages novel. First produced in England New Queens Theatre, Manchester

View of boats in the harbour, with train, Cockwood, Devon
View of boats in the harbour at low tide, with a passing Intercity 125 train, at Cockwood, on the Exe Estuary, Devon. Date: circa 1980s

Earl of Lanesborough with his model railway
Denis Anthony Brian Butler, 9th Earl of Lanesborough (28 October 1918 27 December 1998), Irish aristocrat pictured with the large model-railway he had set up in his home, Swithland Hall

Scene in Santa Cruz Mountains, California, USA
Scene with train on the Southern Pacific Railroad in the Santa Cruz Mountains, California, USA. Date: circa 1930

Trains with searchlights
Meeting of two locomotives equipped trains with electric lanterns. Date: 1903

Midland Railway Station, Gloucester. Date: circa 1905

Railway strike 1911: Affecting holiday crowds
Strikes causing massive disruptions for holiday makers leaving and entering London. Crowds of people escaping from London trying Margate steamers at London Bridge

Fun on the Midland
Promotional postcard for Fun on the Midland, a revue show by Dick Thomas and Lincoln Taylor. Thomas and Taylor toured with this music hall act in the early twentieth century

See India advert - Imperial Indian Mail train
See India advertisement from the Indian Railways Bureau. From Bombay to Calcutta the Imperial Indian Mail runs its weekly journey carrying first class passengers only with their servants. Date: 1935

Electric Train Bridge over Taunton River, Massachusetts, USA
Electric Train Bridge over the Taunton River at Fall River, Massachusetts, USA Date: circa 1908

Victorian Scrap, steam engine. circa 1880s

The Port Baikal loading installations
A view of the installations at Port Baikal for loading/boarding the icebreaker Baikal. Trains were loaded on a track that led through the gantry at the left

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