Railway Tunnel Collection

Construction of the Kilsby Tunnel on the London & Birmingham Railway, 8 July 1837 (1839)

Sbocco della Galleria Valenza ed imbocco della galleria Vallerosa, October 1883. View from inside a tunnel looking down a set of train tracks towards a second tunnel in a small hillside

Opening of the Mont Cenis Tunnel: the first train, 1871. Creator: Unknown
Opening of the Mont Cenis Tunnel: the first train, 1871. Railway tunnel - 3.7 km (8.5 miles) in length - in the European Alps, linking Bardonecchia in Italy to Modane in France

Opening of the Mont Cenis Tunnel: mouth of the tunnel at Bardonnèche
Opening of the Mont Cenis Tunnel: mouth of the tunnel at Bardonneche, Piedmont, [Italy], 1871

The new overland route to India: Modane [in France], at the north end of the tunnel under Mont Cenis, 1869. The village of Modane, on the Savoy side of the mountains...is the first station upon Mr

The new overland route to India and the railway tunnel of the Alps:working galleries
The new overland route to India and the railway tunnel of the Alps: amalgamation of the second and third working galleries, 1869

The new overland route to India and the railway tunnel of the Alps: boring-machine in the tunnel, 1869. The Sardinian Government then appointed M. Maus, a Belgian engineer, and M

The new overland route to India and the railway tunnel of the Alps: boring-machine in the second working gallery, 1869. An English engineer, Mr

The new overland route to India: the tunnel railway tunnel under Mont Cenis - south end, at Bardonneche, 1869....Bardonneche [Bardonecchia], in the Piedmontese valley of the Dora

The new overland route to India: the railway over the Alps - summit of Mont Cenis and lake, 1869

Transbaikal railway. The eastern portal of the tunnel at the 592nd verst during the descent from the pass through the Yablonovy ridge, 1904-1917. National Library of Russia

The London and Southwark Subway, 1890. Creator: Unknown
The London and Southwark Subway, 1890

View of the Tunnel of the Harlem Railroad, ca. 1837. Creator: Nicolino Calyo
View of the Tunnel of the Harlem Railroad, ca.1837

Natural Tunnel, 1872. Creator: William Ludwell Sheppard
Natural Tunnel, 1872. View of the Natural Tunnel, a cave that is so large it is used as a railroad tunnel, Appalachian Mountains, Scott County, Virginia, USA

Meeting of the Two Boring Parties at the Final Piercing of the Lotchberg Tunnel, c1930. From " The Wonder Book of Engineering Wonders", edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co

Entrance of the Simplon Tunnel (12 1 / 2 Miles Long) Connecting Switzerland and Italy
Entrance of the Simplon Tunnel (12 1/2 Miles Long) Connecting Switzerland and Italy, c1930. From " The Wonder Book of Engineering Wonders", edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co

The new overland route to India and the railway tunnel of the Alps:section of the tunnel
The new overland route to India and the railway tunnel of the Alps: transverse section of the tunnel, 1869. Diagram of part of the Grand Tunnel under the Alps...The Sardinian Government appointed M

At Work on the New Mersey Tunnel, c1930. Creator: Unknown
At Work on the New Mersey Tunnel, c1930. From " The Wonder Book of Engineering Wonders", edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, London and Melbourne]

Keeping the Tunnels Clean, 1922. Creator: Unknown
Keeping the Tunnels Clean, 1922. From The Romance of Modern Railways, by T. W. Corbin. [Seeley Service & Co. Limited, London, 1922]

The Thames Tunnel (as it appeared when originally opened for traffic), (c1872). The Thames Tunnel, connecting Wapping and Rotherhithe in London, was the first underwater tunnel in the world

Shakespeare Cliff, Dover, c1896. Artist: Poulton & Co
Shakespeare Cliff, Dover, c1896. From Pictorial England and Wales. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris & Melbourne, c1896]

Entrance of the Railway at Edge Hill, Liverpool, 1831. Artist: Thomas Talbot Bury
Entrance of the Railway at Edge Hill, Liverpool, published 1831 (hand coloured engraving)

Entrance to the tunnel of the Liverpool & Manchester railway, Edge Hill, Liverpool, c1820s

Ventilation shaft in Kilsby Tunnel, Northamptonshire, London & Birmingham Railway, 1839

Germain Sommeillers compressed air rock drill used in excavation of the Mont Cenis Tunnel
Germain Sommeillers compressed air rock drill used in the excavation of the Mont Cenis Tunnel, 1874

Construction of the St Gotthard Tunnel beneath the Alps, 1880. The tunnel was built to link Italy and Switzerland by rail

Completion of the St Gotthard Tunnel beneath the Alps, 1880. The tunnel was built to link Italy and Switzerland by rail

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

The Tunnel, 1831. Artist: Henry Pyall
The Tunnel, 1831. The worlds first passenger railway, the Liverpool and Manchester opened on 15 September 1830. Its principal engineer was George Stephenson (1781-1848)

Opening of the Mont Cenis railway tunnel linking France and Switzerland, 1871
Opening of the Mont Cenis railway tunnel linking France and Switzerland: the inauguration train passing through, September 1871

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