Railways Collection (#8)

J.J. Hill, L.W. Hill, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
J.J. Hill, L.W. Hill, between c1910 and c1915. Shows railroad executive James Jerome Hill (1838-1916) with son Lewis W. Hill

Battery A 2nd Regt. Field artillery, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Battery A 2nd Regt. Field artillery, between c1910 and c1915

Westminster from a Savoy window, 1925 -1926. Creator: CRW Nevinson
Westminster from a Savoy window, 1925 -1926. A winter view of the River Thames looking south west from an upper window at Savoy Hotel

Getting ready for fire KAISER WILHELM the 2nd, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Getting ready for fire KAISER WILHELM the 2nd, between c1910 and c1915

British coal strike - building up reserves for Midland Railway, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
British coal strike - building up reserves for Midland Railway, between c1910 and c1915

Mexico - special train sent for body of De Las Rias, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Mexico - special train sent for body of De Las Rias, between c1910 and c1915

F.M. Swacker, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
F.M. Swacker, between c1910 and c1915. Shows lawyer Frank L. Swacker who served as the attorney for the government in the antitrust case involving the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company

Subway fire, 1/6/15, 1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Subway fire, 1/6/15, 1915

Press room on press car, 1913. Creator: Bain News Service
Press room on press car, 1913. Shows a press room of the press car on the Great Northern Railway

Steamship strike, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Steamship strike, between c1910 and c1915

M.A. Knapp, Wm. Lee Chambers, G.W.W.Hangar, 1913. Creator: Bain News Service
M.A. Knapp, Wm. Lee Chambers, G.W.W.Hangar, 1913. Shows members of the Board of Mediation and Conciliation for the settlement of disputes between railroads

L.I.R.R. Food Train, 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
L.I.R.R. Food Train, 1918. The Long Island Railroad "Victory Special" demonstration car, organized by the women of the Long Island Food Reserve Battalion during World War I

Peace Hurrah, 11 Nov 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Peace Hurrah, 11 Nov 1918 (date created or published later). Parade and crowds in streets in New York City after the Armistice of November 11, 1918 which ended World War I in western Europe

Testimonial to Mr. W. Jackson...from the shareholders of the Florence and Pistoja Railway, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Testimonial to Mr. W. Jackson, of Birkenhead, from the shareholders of the Florence and Pistoja [Pistoia] Railway, 1865. A magnificent silver dessert service...manufactured by Mr

The new High-Level Station at the Crystal Palace, 1865. Creator: T Sulman
The new High-Level Station at the Crystal Palace, 1865. The South London and Crystal Palace Railway...has now been open several weeks...the superior convenience of the new station is already felt by

Subway of the new High-Level Station at the Crystal Palace, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Subway of the new High-Level Station at the Crystal Palace, [Sydenham], 1865. The South London and Crystal Palace Railway...has now been open several weeks...the superior convenience of the new

Cutting the First Turf of the Great Southern Railway at Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Cutting the First Turf of the Great Southern Railway at Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand, 1865. Engraving from a sketch by Mr. W. B

The Railway Station, Arica, Peru, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The Railway Station, Arica, Peru, 1865. View from a sketch by Mr. J. N. Dutton...of H.M.S. Shearwater, when lying in that harbour of the Pacific coast

The Great Eastern Railway Terminus and Hotel at Harwich, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The Great Eastern Railway Terminus and Hotel at Harwich, 1865. The town and port of Harwich...is now becoming one of the most important stations of our commerce with Holland, Germany

The Aberfeldy Branch of the Highland Railway: Strath Tay, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The Aberfeldy Branch of the Highland Railway: Strath Tay, [Scottish Highlands], 1865. A short branch of the Inverness and Perth Junction Railway has lately been constructed to Aberfeldy

The Aberfeldy Branch of the Highland Railway: the Tummel Viaduct at Logierait, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The Aberfeldy Branch of the Highland Railway: the Tummel Viaduct at Logierait, [Scottish Highlands], 1865. A short branch of the Inverness

The Prince and Princess of Wales descending the Botallack Tin-Mine, Cornwall, 1865. Creator: Unknown
he Prince and Princess of Wales descending the Botallack Tin-Mine, near St. Just, Cornwall, 1865. All the ladies and gentlemen

Underground works at the junction of Hampstead-Road, Euston-Road, and Tottenham-Court-Road, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Underground works at the junction of Hampstead-Road, Euston-Road, and Tottenham-Court-Road, 1864. View showing...what extensive subterranean works are being constructed in different parts of London

Turning the first turf of the Buenos Ayres Great Southern Railway, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Turning the first turf of the Buenos Ayres Great Southern Railway, 1864. The line...will go from the capital city to Chascomus

London Main-Drainage Works: view of the outfall of the Northern Drainage at Barking Creek, 1864. Creator: Unknown
London Main-Drainage Works: view of the outfall of the Northern Drainage at Barking Creek, 1864. Illustration of works on...the great northern outfall on the Essex side of the Thames

The Charing-Cross Railway Station and Hotel, 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson
The Charing-Cross Railway Station and Hotel, 1864. This building...is set back from the public roadway of the Strand...A forecourt is thus left for the accommodation of the carriage traffic...there

Scene from Mr. Woodin's Entertainment, "Elopement Extraordinary, " at the Polygraphic Hall, 1864. A carriage on...the London, Tilbury, and Southend Railway...A strong-minded young lady

Garibaldi in England: Garibaldi receiving an address at the Nine Elms railway station, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Garibaldi in England: Garibaldi receiving an address at the Nine Elms railway station, 1864. View of...the interior of the large goods shed at the Nine Elms station of the London

The railway works at Blackfriars and opening towards Ludgate Hill...from the temporary bridge, 1864
The railway works at Blackfriars and opening towards Ludgate Hill, viewed from the temporary bridge, [London], 1864. View...overlooking, on its eastern side

The Great Eastern Railway Company's steamer Avalon, 1864. Creator: Smyth
The Great Eastern Railway Company's steamer Avalon, 1864. The first of a fleet of steam-boats, which Messrs. Dudgeon, of Cubitt Town, Blackwall

The South-Eastern Railway Company's Works on the River: view from Southwark Bridge... 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson
The South-Eastern Railway Company's Works on the River: view from Southwark Bridge, looking east, 1864. The Engraving...presents a view of the piles

The War in America: camp of Federal prisoners on Belle Isle, Richmond... 1864. Creator: Unknown
The War in America: camp of Federal prisoners on Belle Isle, Richmond - from a sketch by our special artist, 1864....in Richmond especially the prisons are full to overflowing...the authorities

New railway carriage built for the use of the Prince and Princess of Wales on the Great East...1864. Creator: Unknown
New railway carriage built for the use of the Prince and Princess of Wales on the Great Eastern Railway, 1864. A representation of the new and elegant saloon carriage

Race in the Channel between the Atalanta twin-screw steamer and the Dover mail-packet Empress, 1864. Creator: Smyth
Race in the Channel between the Atalanta twin-screw steamer and the Dover mail-packet Empress, 1864. The Atalanta...has a pair of screw propellers instead of a single one

Two-storied third-class carriage on the Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Two-storied third-class carriage on the Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway, 1864. [This type of carriage]...was first tried in the early part of the year 1862

Opening of the first railway in New Zealand, at Christchurch, Canterbury Province, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Opening of the first railway in New Zealand, at Christchurch, Canterbury Province, 1864. Engraving from a sketch by Mr. R. Kelly

Icy railways
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Aerial subway in New York, c.1910 (photo)
7293135 Aerial subway in New York, c.1910 (photo); (add.info.: Geography. USA. Aerial subway in Chatham Square, Chinatown, New York. Photo, USA, ca 1910.); Photo: © Archives Charmet

Elevated railway, New York, c.1910-20 (print)
7292970 Elevated railway, New York, c.1910-20 (print); (add.info.: Geography. USA. Elevated railway in New York. Postcard, USA, ca 1910-20.); Photo: © Archives Charmet

Vires Acquirit Eundo (We gather strength as we go) c1835 (hand coloured lithograph on paper)
7426800 Vires Acquirit Eundo (We gather strength as we go) c1835 (hand coloured lithograph on paper); 22x28 cm; Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, Telford, Shropshire

An electric tramway in Berlin in 1886 (engraving)
8766921 An electric tramway in Berlin in 1886 (engraving); Private Collection; (add.info.: An electric tramway in Berlin in 1886 ( From Charlottemburg to Spandau ) 1886); Photo ©Jaime Abecasis

Scotch Express Quadrille, c1870 (hand tinted lithograph on paper)
8836217 Scotch Express Quadrille, c1870 (hand tinted lithograph on paper) by Emery, George (b.1821); 36 x 26 cm; Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, Telford, Shropshire

Rail-Way, 1840 (litho on paper)
8681127 Rail-Way, 1840 (litho on paper) by Lindsay, Thomas (1793-1861); 16x23 cm; Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, Telford, Shropshire

Muddle-Puddle Porter, 1877 (tinted litho on paper)
8681126 Muddle-Puddle Porter, 1877 (tinted litho on paper) by Concanen, Alfred (1835-86); 29x22 cm; Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, Telford, Shropshire

The role of Lord Salisbury in the 1864 Reform Bill
5308308 The role of Lord Salisbury in the 1864 Reform Bill.; (add.info.: Cartoon concerning the role of Lord Salisbury in the 1864 Reform Bill)

A female passenger sitting in a train carriage
5308180 A female passenger sitting in a train carriage.; (add.info.: Illustration depicting a female passenger sitting in a train carriage wait to start her journey)

A mother and child on a train journey
5308179 A mother and child on a train journey.; (add.info.: Illustration depicting a mother and child on a train journey - a luncheon basket is on the seat beside them. Dated 19th century)

Chepstow Bridge. Over the River Wye, 1851 (hand coloured lithograph on paper)
7426824 Chepstow Bridge. Over the River Wye, 1851 (hand coloured lithograph on paper); 21x38 cm; Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, Telford, Shropshire

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"Journey through Time: Exploring the World of Railways" Step back in time to Waterloo Station, London, 1967, where bustling crowds and steam-filled platforms set the scene for a nostalgic railway adventure. Experience the awe-inspiring beauty of the Canadian Rockies aboard the Rocky Mountaineer train at Morants curve near Lake Louise. Marvel at nature's masterpiece as you traverse this breathtaking landscape. Transport yourself to Rhodesia with a vintage poster that captures the allure of rail travel. Embark on an unforgettable journey through history as you explore this captivating destination. Feel the thrill of speed and innovation aboard Pendolino tilting train. Witness its sleek design and cutting-edge technology as it glides effortlessly along curved tracks, providing passengers with a smooth and comfortable ride. Admire a row of Class 55 Deltic diesel locomotives built by English Electric in 1961-1962. These powerful machines symbolize an era when railways played a vital role in connecting communities across Britain. Witness aviation marvels collide with rail transport as Harrier GR. 1 lands gracefully at St Pancras station. This extraordinary sight showcases how railways continue to adapt and evolve alongside other modes of transportation. Indulge your wanderlust with a poster advertising Chateau d'Azay-le-Rideau. Let your imagination soar as you envision exploring this enchanting French castle accessible via rail travel. Travel back in time to Hayling Island with a vibrant Southern Railway poster from 1923. Immerse yourself in nostalgia as you imagine sun-soaked days spent enjoying sandy beaches reached conveniently by train. Relish the charm of yesteryears on Swanage Railway, Corfe Castle, Dorset, England, UK; where steam trains chug along picturesque landscapes evoking memories of simpler times filled with wonder and excitement.