Wagons Collection

Wagons-Lit company poster
Poster extolling the comforts of travelling by rail when you have luxurious sleeper bunks to relax in

Gypsy Caravans
A group of travellers and their horse-drawn caravans/wagons. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Nord Wagons-Lits poster
Poster from French company PLM for the Nord Wagons-Lits London to Vichy Pullman service. A couple enjoy tea in the comfortable interior of a pullman train carriage

Gipsy Hill railway station, south London
Gipsy Hill railway station (LB&SC, London, Brighton and South Coast), south London. Date: circa 1910

Trams causing havoc on a Belfast street
Horses, carts, wagons and pedestrians in an almighty crash involving two trams in Donegal Place in Belfast. The card caption reads: " Our Trammelled Streets" Date: 1905

St Georges Square, Pimlico, London - with a coal delivery (from the wagons in the middle distance) in operation

General view of Exeter Prison, Devon
A general view of Exeter Prison in Devon. Railway lines in the foreground carry a variety of rolling stock including both goods wagons and passenger carriages

French Wagons-Lit poster
Poster advertising the French National Railways Wagon-Lits (sleeper train) service to Switzerland

Robert E Lee / Pyle / Spirit
ROBERT EDWARD LEE American Confederate general on his horse, Traveler

Warehouse / Liverpool Dock
Stock is unloaded from horse- pulled wagons and drawn up into the warehouse by rope

Scene near Mametz Wood, Western Front, WW1
German ammunition wagons destroyed by British artillery fire near Mametz Wood on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

London Bridge, heavy with traffic, both vehicular and pedestrian

Louisville, Kentucky
Downtown Louisville, on the Ohio river, is busy with carriages and wagons : it houses a university and is famous for its racetrack

Markham Colliery, Mining
Empty train wagons wait to carry the coal away at Markham Colliery near Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England

Silema, Malta - View of the long promenade
Sliema is a resort town on the east coast of the Mediterranean island of Malta. The waterfront features a long promenade (as shown here). Date: circa 1910s

Haverfordwest Railway Station, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
Passengers waiting for the 1040 to Paddington, on the up platform of Haverfordwest Railway Station in Pembrokeshire, South Wales

The Hay crop from Suttons Grass Seeds
A promotional postcard for Suttons Seeds, Reading - showing women harvesting the hay crop, grown from Suttons Grass seeds

Passage of the Issel (Ijssel), a river which runs through Germany and the Netherlands, by British troops, winter of 1794-1795, during the French Revolutionary Wars. Date: 1794

Gathering Seaweed at Le Hocq, Jersey, Channel Islands - the principle growing agent for the famed Jersey Royal Potatoes, although used less these days. Date: circa 1910s

Mount Rainier and Gateway to the City of Tacoma, USA (note the Old City hall - 8193) - sitting above the extensive Northern Pacific Railroad freight depot (yards) and the Thea Foss Waterway

Firefighters attempt to right a fallen cart, WW2
Firefighters attempt to right a fallen cart in Clerkenwell Close

Waiting at the Cotton Gin - Memphis, Tennessee. A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds Date: circa 1910

American 43rd Balloon Company, western front, WW1
Men of the American 43rd Balloon Company on the road to Bertrange Farm on the western front during the First World War. Date: 1918

A group of cowboys in a field

Bognor Regis - Bathing Huts / Wagons
A wonderful photograph by William Pankhurst Marsh of the horse-drawn bathing Wagons at Bognor. The Royal Pier Hotel can be seen

Manchester Ship Canal - Unloading bananas
Unloading bananas from a steamship liner moored up on the Manchester Ship Canal directly into railway wagons on a track on the edge of the quayside

Billingsgate Fish Market - Fresh Haddock
Fresh Haddock brought to Billingsgate Fish Market in London on large wagons Date: 1912

St Nicholas Church on The Old Town Square in Prague. This famous baroque Church decorated with sculptures by Antonin Braun was completed in 1735

Oxford Street 1928
There are still horse-drawn wagons to be seen in Oxford Street among the motor buses, trucks and cabs : note the many shop blinds, rarely if ever seen here today

Covent Garden 1905
Covent Garden : horse-drawn carts and wagons arrive, piled high with fruit and vegetables for the dining tables of London

Shaftesbury Home, Bisley - Farm Work
Shaftesbury Home, Bisley - boys load hay from wagons onto haystacks. Date: 1890s

Royal Horse Artillery - Gun Team
Royal Horse Artillery Gun Team - Horse artillery differs from field artillery in that the whole gun detachment is mounted and the gun and wagon aretherefore freed from the load of men

Military honours for dead of R101
French homage to Britains dead in the great airship R101 disaster: the moving final scene at Beauvais - Spahis saluting the coffins, borne on French artillery wagons

City of London Infirmary, Bow Road, East London
Situated where Mile End Road continues as Bow Road, the City of London Union Infirmary (now St Clement's Hospital) opened in 1849 as the City of London Union workhouse

Alabama - Cotton Compress at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama - The Cotton Compress

Santa Claus
Santa driving a goods train with wagons full of toys. Date: circa 1904

United States. Emigrants on carts heading out West
Emigrants on carts heading out West. Engraving by Vernier. Panorama Universal. History of the United States of America, from 1st edition of Jean B.G

United States. Emigrants on carts heading out West - Vernier
Emigrants on carts heading out West. Engraving by Vernier. Panorama Universal. History of the United States of America, from 1st edition of Jean B.G

Spain, Basque Country, Biscay. Somorrostro mines
Spain, Basque Country, Biscay. Mining industry. Somorrostro mines. Inclined plane number 1 of Mount Cadegal. Drawing by Nao. Engraving. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1882

Conquest of Egypt by English troops, 1882. Egypt. Alexandria (English line). The armored train that General Alison uses in military reconnaissance. Engraving by Rico

Spain, Madrid. New North Railway Station (North Station). The definitive station was inaugurated in 1882, with a part destined to the passengers. Platform. Engraving by Tomas Carlos Capuz

Bringing ivory to the wagons, South Africa, c. 1863
Engraving from a sketch by Thomas Baines, made while travelling in South Africa with explorer and elephant hunter James Chapman in around 1862-3

National Coal Strike of 1912 - searching through slag heap
The National Coal Strike of 1912 - searching through slag heap for pieces of coal to burn.. The national coal strike of 1912 was the first national strike by coal miners in the United Kingdom

Entrance of King Cyrus of Persia into Babylon, 540BC
The triumphal entrance of King Cyrus of Persia into Babylon, 29 October 540BC. Solenne Pompa di Ciro in Babilonia

Curtiss Wind Wagon - Glenn Curtiss and Thomas Scott Baldwin
Glenn Curtiss sat in one of his Wind Wagons with Thomas Scott Baldwin. Curtiss wind wgons and ice-boats were used by Thomas Scott Baldwin ( Captain Baldwin, no relation to the A.E.A.s F. W)

Curtiss Wind Wagon with Glenn Curtiss
Glenn Curtiss sat in one of his Wind Wagons, used by Thomas Scott Baldwin ( Captain Baldwin, no relation to the A.E.A.s F. W)

The Salt Works, Aden, Yemen - a line of wagons pulled along railway tracks by a camel circa 1920s

Mauritius - Moka Railway Station. A number of narrow gauge industrial railway lines, connected sugar mills with nearby sugar cane plantations

Ste Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, Canada - Railway Station of the GTR (The Grand Trunk Railway). Date: circa 1910s

Colombo, Sri Lanka - Lipton Ltd. Tea Company - Maddema Mills - note the ox-pulled tea wagons, each individually numbered (see also: 10296761). Date: circa 1905

A Fair on the Common at Southwold, Suffolk. Date: circa 1910s

A Ruston-Bucyrus 25-RB steam navvy loading side-tipping wagons, hauled by 0-6-0 tank locomotive Pelican at Hessle Quarry

Ammunition wagon on its way to Admiral Ferry, Lake Erie, USA early 1900s

Railway trucks carrying slate wagons in Wales

New Street, Birmingham - view towards the Town Hall - note all transport horse-drawn. Date: 1902

Thwaite Traction Engine early 1900s

Wartime Railway Wagons
A photograph of a mass of wartime railway wagons, loaded with vital supplies. Date: circa 1944

Night sortie and attack on baggage wagons, India Date: 1857-1858

Military March
This artwork depicts a seemingly endless line of military soldiers, mostly on horseback and in wagons, travelling down a brick path. Date: circa 1917

A Gypsy Wedding party - USA. Date: 1906

Advert, Tanner & Baylis, Cheltenham, Fly Waggons, operating daily between the West Country and London. Date: 1826

Tower Bridge opening its bascules to let tall ships go past. Date: 1900

MATABELE/LAAGER DEFENDED
The Matabele attack a laager of wagons. Date: 1893

Women hauling coal wagons in a French mine Date: 1903

SAN FRANCISCO DEBRIS
The first consequences of the quake - streets piled high with debris, buildings in danger of collapse, horses pulling wagons and carriages lying dead among the rubble Date: April 1906

The Battle of the Herrings (the Battle of Rouvray), in Northern France, during the Siege of Orleans, fought between France and Scotland against England, 12 February 1429

Gipsy Encampment in Essex
A gypsy family on an encampment. Date: late 1890s

Glasgow, Scotland - Jamaica Bridge. Date: circa 1906

Zanzibar City - Zanzibar - Tanzania - East Africa. Date: circa 1920s

Ventnor, Isle of Wight, bathing huts, wagons, beach
Vintage 19th century photograph: Ventnor, Isle of Wight, bathing huts, wagons along the beach

Scenes from the Congo, Africa, 1820
A great man carried by slaves in a palanquin 43, men striking a bargain by breaking a leaf 44, and escaped slave Simmons meeting his father 45. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rev

Persian soldiers with weapons, cattle, wagons, etc. They carry spears, shields and quivers, and lead goats, bulls and horses

Triple deities of the ancient Germans, Mairae or Mairabus
The triple deities or mother goddesses of the ancient Germans, Mairae or Mairabus. Inscribed: In honorem Domits divinae diis Mairabus Dee madri o matrone

Blenkinsopps Patent Steam Carriage, fly engine with eight wagons, Middleton near Leeds, 1812. Reproduction of engraving. Date: circa 1900

Ludgate Hill Station and New Bridge Street
The exterior of Ludgate Hill Station and New Bridge Street. Terminus of the London, Chatham and Dover Railway (which closed in 1929). Date: circa 1900

Francois Le Vaillants camp at Poort after a great elephant hunt, South Africa. Among the huts, wagons and tents, a huge fire roasts elephant meat

Dunvilles whisky wagons in London
Large number of wagons, heavily laden with cases of Dunvilles world-famed V.R. whisky, travelling from St. Katherines Dock to Dunvilles London headquarters in Shaftesbury Avenue

Advert, Hurst, Nelson & Co Ltd, Motherwell, Scotland
Advert for Hurst, Nelson & Co Ltd, builders of Railway Train Carriages and Wagons, Motherwell, Scotland. 1905

America - Satire On Benedict Arnold
Satire On Benedict Arnold During The American War of Independence. Date: 1783

The Battle of Bloody Brook
An ambush on the escorted harvest wagons for the Deerfield settlements by Nipmuc warriors, led by the sachem Muttawmp

Crossing the beach at Ilhavo, Central Portugal
Crossing the beach in an ox-drawn wagon at Ilhavo, Central Portugal. Date: circa 1905

Early days of freighting, Modoc County, California, USA. Date: early 1900s

Advert for Tanner & Baylis Fly Waggons, to and from London, two days each way. 1826

Crossing the Ice Bridge - Montreal, Canada
Crossing the Ice Bridge over the Saint Lawrence River, Montreal, Quebec province, Canada. circa 1910

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