Railway Line Collection (page 13)

Advertisement for Houdaille car suspension, c1900

Busy Scenes in Benghazi, 1943. Here we see stores being unloaded for allied troops. During the Battle of El Alamein 66 miles from Alexandria, Egypt, British troops led by General Bernard Montgomery

Train Load of Sugar Cane leaving the field, Cuba, 1915

Bath from Beechen Cliff, c1925. From Bath: Sixteen Camera Studies in Colour, published by Photochrom Co. Ltd. c1925

Railway and motor routes and pipelines, Syrian desert, 1937. Artist: Emery Walker Ltd
Railway and motor routes and pipelines, Syrian desert, 1937. A print from The Syrian Desert: Caravans, Travel and Exploration, by Christina Phelps Grant, A & C Blacks Ltd, London, 1937

Rounding the curves on Marshall Pass, Colorado, USA, 1898. Artist: BL Singley
Rounding the curves on Marshall Pass, Colorado, USA, 1898. Detail from a stereoscopic card. The railway line over Marshall Pass was completed in 1881 for the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroads

The Neva at St Petersburg, Russia, c1880. View showing ships and railway wagons on the quayside and St Isaacs Cathedral in the distance

Group of tourists on a railway platform, Abisko, northern Sweden, 1929

Plant and switchyards of a wood preserving company, Escanaba, Michigan, USA. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Plant and switchyards of a wood preserving company, Escanaba, Michigan, USA. Stereoscopic card detail

Cologne Cathedral from a railway bridge, Cologne, Germany. Artist: EW Kelley
Cologne Cathedral from a railway bridge, Cologne, Germany. The cathedral in Cologne was begun in 1248 but was not finally completed until 1880. It is the largest Gothic church in northern Europe

Railway bridge across the Vals River at Kroonstad, blown up by the Boers, South Africa, 1901. Stereoscopic card

Royal Engineers repairing a railway destroyed by the Boers, Kroonstad, South Africa, 1900. Stereoscopic card

Cleveland, from Scrantons Hill, Ohio, USA, 19th century. Artist: Harley
Cleveland, from Scrantons Hill, Ohio, USA, 19th century

The train arriving from Port Tewfik, Suez, Egypt, 20th century

Dockyard workshops and waterfront, Gibraltar, 20th century

A single loop in the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, India, c1910. Plate taken from Views of Darjeeling with Typical Native Portraits and Groups by J. Burlington Smith, published by Hood & Co

The Panama Canal under construction, c1890. View from San Pablo. From Universal Geography, Maps & Illustrations, Vol XXXIV, Virtue & Co Limited, (London, c1890)

The Bhor Ghat, near Khandala, India, 1895. Artist: Taylor
The Bhor Ghat, near Khandala, India, 1895. From The Universal Geography with Illustrations and Maps, division XVI, written by Elisee Reclus and published by Virtue & Co. Limited (London, 1895)

Paddington Station, London, 1926-1927. Artist: McLeish
Paddington Station, London, 1926-1927. From Wonderful London, volume II, edited by Arthur St John Adcock, published by Amalgamated Press (London, 1926-1927)

Addison Road railway station, London, 1926-1927. From Wonderful London, volume II, edited by Arthur St John Adcock, published by Amalgamated Press (London, 1926-1927)

Avon Gorge, Bristol, 1926. Artist: Cavenders Ltd
Avon Gorge, Bristol, 1926. From the River Valleys set of hand-coloured cigarette cards issued with Army Club Cigarettes, Cavanders Ltd, 1926

The Harbour - Newquay, 1927

Bellinzona, Switzerland, early 20th century(?)

Troops tearing up a railway, American Civil War, 1861-1865 (c1880). A print from Cassells History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume III, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880

Railway line near Kobe, Japan, 1891. Artist: A Forsyth
Railway line near Kobe, Japan, 1891. A print from The Illustrated London News, 21st November 1891

Corcovado, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, c1900s

Olympia and the headquarters of the Post Office Savings Bank, London, 1926-1927. From Wonderful London, volume II, edited by Arthur St John Adcock, published by Amalgamated Press (London, 1926-1927)

Opening of the first railway line from St Petersburg to Pavlovsk, Russia, 1830s. Artist: Russian Master
Opening of the first railway line from St Petersburg to Pavlovsk, Russia, 1830s. The first railway in Russia was opened in 1837

Construction work on the Trans-Siberian Railway, USSR, 1929. Found in the collection of the Russian State Film and Photo Archive, Krasnogorsk

Suburban train station in fornt of the Academy of Arts, St Petersburg, Russia, c1896-c1898. Found in the collection of the State Museum of History, Moscow

Japanese attack on a hospital train near Port Arthur, Manchuria, Russo-Japanese War, 1904. The Russo-Japanese War arose due to the two countries conflicting territorial ambitions in East Asia

German soldiers awaiting transportation in a railway station in the Paris suburbs, August 1940
German Wehrmacht unit awaiting transportation in a railway station in the Paris suburbs, August 1940

Corps Francs des Chemin de Fer, Siege of Paris, 1870-1871. Print from a series titled Souvenirs du Siege de Paris. After the disastrous defeat of the French at Sedan and the capture of Napoleon III

Boer War, 1899-1902. Boer commander Christiaan Rudolf de Wet attempting to lead a column across a railway at night past an armoured train and blockhouse

Accident on the Marly-le-Roi rail line, France, 1891. Artist: F Meaulle
Accident on the Marly-le-Roi rail line, France, 1891. A print from a supplement to the Le Petit Journal, 14th November 1891

German troops arriving by train, Paris, August 1940

German soldiers on a railway platform awaiting transport, Paris, August 1940

Locomotive emerging from the Kingwood Tunnel through the Alleghany Mountains, 1861
Locomotive emerging from the 4100 ft Kingwood Tunnel through the Alleghany Mountains, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. From The Illustrated London News, May 1861. Wood engraving

Central Pacific Railraod in the Sierra Nevada mountains, c1875
Central Pacific Railraod in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Train cheered by railroad workers, including Chinese labourers. Wood engraving c1875

South Durham Salt Works, 1884. Loading crystallised salt into railway wagons. Brine would be pumped up from the borehole, purified, then crystallised

An Aggravated Case, 1872. The railway lines are a danger to the unsophisticated rural worker. The Head Keeper, however, is more concerned about the Masters gun

Solitary Travelers Guide to Railway, 19th century. Creator: Utagawa Yoshitora
Solitary Travelers Guide to Railway, 19th century

War Memorial Locomotive, Remembrance, Brighton Section, Southern Railway, 1930
War Memorial Locomotive, " Remembrance, " Brighton Section, Southern Railway, 1930. From " The Wonder Book of Railways", edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co

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