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Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch RailwayA New British-American Baby Loco! The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Miniature Railway, the ambitious fifteen gauge passenger railway that stills runs to this day across Romney Marsh. Date: 1932
Special train engine and carriage of the Egyptian KhediveThe 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
The Super Chief on the Santa Fe RailwayThe Super Chief passenger service on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, USA. This train claimed to be The Train of the Stars due to the Hollywood celebrities it carried across America
Derailing of the Flying ScotsmanThe accident took place near Chevington Junction, between Morpeth and Alnmouth. The tender and the six bogey-carriages left the rails and tore up the permanent way
The Blue Train - illustrated poemA poem by Joy Garden (and quite a terrible one at that), extolling the virtues of travelling to the French Riviera via the fabled Blue Train
Flying Scotsman 1960SThe London and North Eastern Railways Flying Scotsman express. Date: 1966
Train Timetable 1910Timetable for Express Trains from London Euston in July, August and September 1910. Date: 1910
Cow riding on a trainA 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
Parliamentary train, interior of third class 1862Crowded less affluent passengers seated on a busy Parliamentary train in third class at 7 o clock in the morning. 1862
The corridor tender of the Flying ScotsmanThe Flying Scotsman, London and North Eastern Railway, with corridor tender. Specially designed to enable train drivers and firemen to pass back into the carriage to rest
Flying Scotsman luggage label by H. L. OakleyLuggage labels featuring the famous Flying Scotsman steam train, designed by the silhouette artist Captain Harry Lawrence Oakley. Date: 1924
LNER, W1 10000 Hush Hush"LNER, W1 10000 " Hush Hush " - built 1929. Date: early 1930s
George Hoy donkeyGeorge Hoys donkey, remonstrance of the Tottenham passengers, 1856
Train at BatterseaA view from the top of the gasometer at Battersea showing the junction of railway lines outside Victoria Station and the river Thames on the left below Chelsea Bridge
French Nord ExpressThe Nord Express of the Chemin du Fer du Nord pulls out of the Gare du Nord, Paris, hauled by a massive Baltic locomotive
Flying Scotsman 1930SThe London and North Eastern Railways Flying Scotsman express, drawn by the A4 Pacific Union of South Africa leaves Kings Cross and heads for Edinburgh
Rail on Ice 1904Railway tracks are laid over ice-covered Lake Baikal, and short trains cross carrying troops to the battlefront of the war with Japan
Third class carriage interior. Inscribed verso Interior of III class local car GIPR. New local trains, turn over seats, electric lights'. Date: circa 1905
Southend express train, London, Tilbury & Southend RailwaySouthend express train, on the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway. Date: circa early 20th century
Incidents including train-wrecking: General Strike 1926Several scenes in England including: Liverpool Street Station crowds of commuters trying to get to work. Vandalism in Northumberland where fish-plates and bolts had been removed from the rails
Kadugannawa Railway Station, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)Aerial view (from Dawson Tower), Kadugannawa Railway Station, Kandy District, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1930
Southwold railway station, Suffolk, with a steam train alongside the platform. circa 1900s
Mari Indus Railway Station, North West Frontier Province (then in British India, now in Pakistan), with soldiers and a GIP military train. Date: circa 1919
Man at the rear of a railway train, USAMan standing at the rear of a railway train, North America. The section he is on is known as a Caboose -- a manned railroad car coupled to the end of a freight train. Date: circa 1908
Southern Railway FiremenFirefighters 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
Halesowen railway station, Dudley, West Midlands. Date: circa 1910
Railway construction at Belemedik, Turkey -- part of the Berlin-Baghdad railway. Date: circa 1915
Magnetic evitated train by Emile Bachelet 1914Diagram for a magnetic evitated trains, primarily the invention is designed for the carrying of mail at the speed of 300 miles per hour
The Flying Scotsman dining carLuxurious interior of the dining car on the Flying Scotsman, served by an all-steel kitchen-car, the first of its kind on a British diner. 1914
Wreckage of the Flying ScotsmanOn the morning of April 14th the Flying Scotsman - the London to Aberdeen express from Kings Cross - came into collision with the engine of a goods train outside Burntisland Station, Fifeshire. 1914
Race - steam train and racing car, 1920sA racing car races a steam engine and begins to out pace it. Date: 1929
CPR TRAINA train of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Date: 1895
Train driver and stoker on engine footplateOn the footplate: a driver and a stoker on the open footplate of a night train at Christmas-time, discussing the recent railway strike in Scotland. Date: 1891
The Workmans Train. Interior of a third class carriage running workers from the suburbs of London into the city centre. The illustration related to a feature in the same issue of The Illustrated
Lovett Eames, single bogie express locomotive, AmericaLovett Eames, single bogie express locomotive no. 5000, built by Baldwin Locomotive Works, America. Date: circa 1910
Timken tapered roller bearing axleboxes - trainA recent innovation by British Timken Ltd - a tapered-roller-bearing wagon bearing unit for freight stock made suitable for high speed and replacing the old plain-bearing axlebox
Bus stop outside Manchester Piccadilly Train StationA bus stop outside Manchester Piccadilly Train Station, with an old poster promoting 21 Express Trains a day to London. Date: circa 1978
Two trains at Springfield, Ohio, USATwo trains taking on water at the station in Springfield, Ohio, USA. The engines are the Big Four #46 and the CCC & St L (Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St Louis Railway) #6. Date: circa 1910
Image of the construction of the railway in Cuba between Havana and Bejucal (27, 5 km), 1835. It was the first railway in Latin America and Spain. Engraving
A train of the Canadian Pacific RailwayA monarch of the rail: the front of a 4-6-2 passenger locomotive of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Date: c. 1930s
Three women working on a train carriage. London depot
Orient Express StaffSmartly-dressed staff of the Orient Express at Victoria Station, London, England. Date: 1986
George Hoy challengeGeorge Hoys challenge to the directors of the Eastern Counties Railway Company, to race his donkey against their trains, 1856 Date: 1856
Transport montage Ship, Balloon, Train, Car 1899 Date: 1899
An old fashioned steam train and workers
Lord of the Isles steam train, 1851The Great Western Railway Broad Gauge Locomotive Lord of the Isles, 1851. Date: 1851
Zig-Zag railway in AustraliaThe " Zig-Zag" on the Western Line, New South Wales, Australia. Zig-zag railway (probably the Lithgow Zig-Zag) built in the mid-19th century to overcome an otherwise insurmountable climb up
Train snowed in, Wales in the winter of 1947A train and locomotive brought to a standstill by snow drifts on the line between Merthyr and Abergavenny following the renewed blizzards of early March during one of the coldest recorded winters in