Trains Collection (page 18)

Railway Sleeper - Aberystwyth Station
The Railway Sleeper series - A snoozing Welsh shepherd takes forty winks leaning up against his crook, sitting on a wooden crate at Aberystwyth Station, his trusty Collie sheepdog at his feet

Camel Train in Australia
Camel Train in Central Australia

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

Embroidered Train
The Present Time A train with two carriages, capable of speeds of 60 miles per hour

Muslim Refugees heading to Pakistan
Two trains packed with Muslim refugees en route from Delhi to Pakistan. A bulging, writhing target trainload of refugees was attacked by Sikhs at Amritsar on 22nd September

Refugee Trains, India
Crowded trains of refugees arriving at Amritsar, border town on Pakistan and India, following the Partition in 1947

Advertisement for Riviera travel

Set of Hornby toy trains & rolling stock

Railway Dining Car with waiters

Eskbank Station
Railway train in Eskbank Station in New South Wales, Australia c. 1914

Sans Souci, 1900s
Train on the Ramsgate Road, Sans Souci, New South Wales, Australia

Cairns 1930s
Train crossing Stoney Creek on the Cairns Railway, Queensland, Australia

Summer Hill Station
Train at Summer Hill Station ni New South Wales, Australia in the 19th century

How to straphang
Various London Underground passengers using inventive ways to hang on to straps on Tube trains. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary

How the Trains get Delayed
A courting couple are oblivious to the delay they are causing on the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway. Please note

Main Line Express Engines
An illustration showing various express engines

Pity the poor strap hanger
An image illustrating the introduction of hand straps on underground trains. When straps were added to underground railway carriages in the early 1900s, there was an outcry among travellers

Express Engines Of The World by Laurence Davis
Examples of express trains engines from around the world taken from Boys Own newspaper

Railway Station, Mersin
The Railway Station, Mersin. A large city and a busy port on the Mediterranean coast of southern Turkey and is the capital of the Mersin Province

Experiment with jets to clear away snow in Wales, 1947
Jet engines or gas turbines, acting like blow lamps, eat their way through the snow as a truck advances down the railway line in the hills of South Wales

The war in South Africa, where railways and armoured trains were much used: A Burgher Commando detraining

Trains Sabotaged
In protest against the forced enlistment of Poles to help Russia fight the Japanese, patriots sabotage the railways on which they will have to travel

Trial of a Channel Ferry Model on the Serpentine, February 1
Engraving of a trial of a Steam Channel Ferry design on the Serpentine, Hyde Park, from The Graphic, 26th February 1876. This working steam scale model appears an ambitious project, with three hulls

Immigrants getting on trains at New York, 1886
Engraving showing immigrant families waiting to board a train at New York Cental Station, 1886. This train was bound for the Mid-West of America

Long Trained Skirts 1875
Dresses: cascading trains & jacket bodices (with revers & ruched sleeves or high collar, pointed basque & back-lacing like a corset) & over-skirts in plaid or floral prints

Women on Balcony 1878
Jacket bodices with plastrons, tie-back skirts & trains. One with an over-skirt fastening across the front with buttoned straps over an under-skirt of flounces

The honeymoon carriage on the Midland railway
The compartment for newly wedded couples by the Midland Railway Company on selected trains. The carriage is unofficially termed the honeymoon carriage but can be reserved for the price of two first

Commencement of the tunnel at Kings Cross
The commencement of the tunnel at Kings Cross. Kings Cross was proposed to be a principle terminal station. The underground was deemed to be the solution for convenient travel in densely populated

Dining carriage in the East Coast Express

First American Train

Locomotive Galop 1867
A locomotive train emerges from a tunnel

Crowded Trains
Due to shortage of materials and fuel, trains are so overcrowded that even their roofs are laden with passengers

King Henry VIII steam locomotive near Slough
The King Henry VIII steam locomotive of the Great Western Railway near Taplow and Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. Part of the King Class of locomotives, it was built in 1928 and withdrawn in 1962

Making Toys at Factory
In a London factory, two women workers attend to the last minute orders for Christmas; here a stack of toy locomotive engines await dispatch

Goods Train 1980
A British goods train

Train at Dawlish
A steam train passing through the picturesque town of Dawlish in Devon, England

Train-Passing Project
By enabling trains to pass each other on the same track, the cost of building railways could be substantially lower. So could the life-expectancy of rail travellers

Rail Accident Risk
A satirical comment on the remarkably high accident rate of excursion trains

Lnwr Scotch Express
The Scotch Express of the London and North Western Railway hurries past Wolverton, Buckinghamshire

Clermont Bordeaux Train
A steam train of the Chemin de Fer d Orleans, making its way through the picturesque countryside between Clermont- Ferrand and Bordeaux

Train Leaves Edinburgh
The North Eastern Railways East Coast Express leaves Waverley Station, Edinburgh, hauled by two powerful locomotives to overcome the

Royal Train Lnwr 1887
Queen Victorias Royal Train on the London and North- Western Railway

Playing with Model Train
Two children play with a model railway set out on the floor

Making Model Trains
Two skilled young women making toy locomotives in a British factory. The engines are carefully cut and bent into shape and then hand painted

L POOL / M CHESTER RAILWAY
LIVERPOOL TO MANCHESTER RAILWAY Two freight and two passenger trains showing the variety of rolling stock employed on this short but busy line. 1st 2nd and 3rd class carriages shown

Rail Travel, 1820S
One of the earliest trains - with the carriages adapted from road coaches and the outside passengers liable to be blackened by smoke

Fontaine express train
Fontaines express loco

American Camden Train
Camden loco

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