Images Dated 12th July 2017 (page 4)

RAIL / USA / 1869 LINK
The first US transcontinental railroad is completed, linking the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads at Promontory Point, Utah. Date: 10 May 1869

Mania / Railway Board
The Presidents Room at the Railway Board Date: 1845

Mania / Rail Projector
A railway projector - depicted as a circus acrobat - hides from the anger of the investors whose money he holds in his bags... Date: 1866

Mania / Railway Plans
Plans for new railway projects being rushed to the Board of Trade, Whitehall, London, in order to meet the deadline on 30 November 1845 Date: 1845

Mania / Railway Plans
Plans for new railway projects, deposited at the Board of Trade, Whitehall, London, on or before 30 November 1845 Date: 1845

Mania / Depositing Plans
Railway prospectors depositing their plans at the Board of Trade, on Sunday 30 November Date: 1845

Mania / Preparing Plans
A group of railway projectors make last-minute alterations to their plans in a tavern before submitting them to the Board of Trade, hoping to out- match their competitors Date: 1845

Mania / Director Down
A former railway director is reduced to the humble occupation of sweeping the streets : a satire on the rise and fall of railway speculators Date: 1846

Toreboda Station, Sweden
SWEDEN Station at Toreboda, where one can transfer from the railway to the river-boat Date: 1865

How Prevent Accidents
Comment on ideal way to insure against railway accidents - tie directors of railway companies to their engines! Date: 1853

Hensons Aerial Carriage
HENSONs AERIAL STEAM CARRIAGE the most practicable of the early projects : though it never flew, it was a remarkable prevision of the flying machines to come. Date: 1843

Scala Theatre, Milan, Italy Performance of a Ballet
Scala Theatre - Milan, Italy -Performance of a Ballet

The Man in the Moone
C17 space traveller Domingo Gonsales, who has trained wild swans to tow a burden through the air, is carried by them to the Moon, where they are accustomed to hibernate. Date: 1638

SIEMENs RAILWAY 1879
Siemens miniature electric railway at the Berlin Exhibition. Date: 1879

London Bridge Station
The great joint station of the Croydon, Brighton and Dover Railway, at Southwark, built 1840 - 1844, completing the South-Eastern Railway for the time being Date: 1844

Canada / Grand Trunk Rail
Snow-plough on the Grand Trunk Railway, Canada Date: 1862

Canada / Grand Trunk Rail
Snow-plough on the Grand Trunk Railway, Canada Date: 1870

Canada / Grand Trunk Rail
Snow-plough on the Grand Trunk Railway, Canada Date: 1870

RAIL / USA 1860
The arrival of the first train of the Atlantic and Great Western railroad at James Town from New York. Date: 1860

Festiniog Railway 3
FESTINIOG RAILWAY - Fairlie engine pulls train at Tan-Y-Bwlch station Date: 1884

Festiniog Railway 1
FESTINIOG RAILWAY - snowy conditions create problems for Fairlie engine Princess Date: 1880

Olive Mount Cutting
LIVERPOOL-MANCHESTER RAILWAY The Olive Mount cutting. Date: circa 1831

Rail in Africa / Tunis
Railway station at Tunis. Date: 3 April 1880

Not Teatotaller
RAILWAY STATION BUFFET: Gentleman offended by suggestion he might drink tea... Date: 1875

Gent Offended by Tea
At a railway station buffet, a gentleman is offended by the suggestion that he might drink tea... Date: 1875

Gare Du Nord, Paris
LA GARE DU NORD, PARIS The original building, street facade Date: 1846

Finding Station Name
Railway Puzzle To find the name of the station among the many bill- boards Date: 1883

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: 1815

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

19th century railway tickets
One from Edinburgh to Newcastle, courtesy of the North British Railway, then on down to London thanks to the Brandling Junction Railway Company. Date: 1844

Charing Cross Station. A busy scene on the platform Date: 1888

Aldgate Terminus
The Metropolitan Line is extended eastwards : Aldgate Station is, for the time being, the terminus. Date: 1876

Rail embankment
Building an embankment for a railway line Date: 1881

Cambridge Station
Date: 1845

Alton Towers Station
North Staffordshire Railway Date: 1886

Brandon Station
Date: 1844

Glasgow Station
Glasgow Saint Enoch Date: 1891

Doncaster Station
Date: 1849

Cape / Cairo Railway - 3
CAPE-TO-CAIRO RAILWAY Driving the trans- continental rail link across the plains of the Congo Date: 1914

Train in Town
A train of the Camden & Amboy Railroad passes through the streets of the town of Burlington, with no fence or protected crossing Date: 1858

In a Waiting Room
Scene in the waiting room of a country station Date: 1888

Railway Snacks
Passengers on the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad are refreshed when their train stops at Gordonsville, Virginia, by a variety of foods and drinks offered by enterprising locals Date: 1882

Waiting for the attack, Omdurman, 2nd Sudan War. Members of the 1st Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment, man a makeshift line prior to the deciding battle of the 2nd Sudan War (1896-1899)

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

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

De Sandervals Prototype Glider Date: 1870s

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

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