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Historical Rail Transportation

Illustrations depicting significant moments in railway history, featuring steam locomotives, early train stations, and gatherings of passengers from the 19th century.

Engraving showing the steamship 'Britannia' steaming through the ice to leave Boston Harbour, USA, 1847. Date: 1847
Engraving showing the steamship 'Britannia' steaming through the ice to leave Boston Harbour, USA, 1847. Date: 1847
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An engraving depicting Thomson's road steamer in Edinburgh. Dated 19th century
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The first passenger train over the White Pass to the Klondike Date: 1897
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Regents Canal, London: Barge passing through the City Road Lock. Engraving, London, 1885.
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Godard Balloons at Gare D'Orleans. Date: 1870
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Traffic in Paris, France, at the Quai St, Paul, ca 1780, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, Europe
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Edward, Prince of Wales, riding on the footplate of a locomotive over the Ghaut, ('Sensation Rock'). Date: 1876
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transport transportation railway waggons passenger car interior Baltimore and Ohio Railroad USA wood engraving 1861,
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A wagon and a wheelbarrow carry goods from the terminus of the Blackwall Railway. Date: 1853
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Transfer carriage with electric motor, used in railway workshops, illustration from L'Industria, Rivista tecnica ed economica illustrata, Milan, 1893.
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Traffic in London's Piccadilly long before the introduction of the Congestion Charge. The challenge in this Metropolitan Prize Puzzle is to 'find the policeman'. Date: 1883
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Terrible tramway accident, Besancon, France, 1899. Artist: Oswaldo Tofani
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Compania del Ferrocarril de Medina del Campo a Zamora y de Orense a Vigo (MZOV) (Railway Company from Medina del Campo to Zamora and from Orense to Vigo). Spanish railway company operating between 1862 and 1928. Its managing director was the Catalan capitalist Mr Caterineu. It connected Galicia with the Meseta Central (Inner Plateau). Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain. Inauguration of the railway line from Redondela to Pontevedra. Blessing of the locomotive Pontevedra (number 52), on 30th June 1884. It was decorated with coats of arms of the city and Barcelona, flags, pennants and garlands. Drawing by Manuel Alcazar (1858-1914). Engraving by Bernardo Rico (1825-1894). The Spanish and American Illustration (La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana), 1884.
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Compania del Ferrocarril de Medina del Campo a Zamora y de Orense a Vigo (MZOV) (Railway Company from Medina del Campo to Zamora and from Orense to Vigo). Spanish railway company operating between 1862 and 1928. Its managing director was the Catalan capitalist Mr Caterineu. It connected Galicia with the Meseta Central (Inner Plateau). Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain. Inauguration of the railway line from Redondela to Pontevedra. Blessing of the locomotive Pontevedra (number 52), on 30th June 1884. It was decorated with coats of arms of the city and Barcelona, flags, pennants and garlands. Drawing by Manuel Alcazar (1858-1914). Engraving by Bernardo Rico (1825-1894). The Spanish and American Illustration (La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana), 1884.
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Phoenician merchant ship leaving port with full crew, historical illustration
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Departure from S.M. The Queen of England. (IT)
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The queen reviewing the fleet at Spithead, Hampshire, late 19th century, (1900). Artist: Unknown
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'The Paddington Canal, 1840', (c1876). Creator: Unknown.
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Stagecoach at the Reno post office in 1880, Nevada, track construction of the Central Pacific railway line, America, digitally restored reproduction o...
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An engraving depicting horse buses by the Bank of England. Dated 19th century
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American Steam Train Travel 1833-1904 Japan. Center sheet of triptych . Utagawa Yoshikazu
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FERROCARRILES. ESTADOS UNIDOS. UN TREN DE TURISTAS DESCENDIENDO POR EL FERROCARRIL INCLINADO DEL " MOUNT WASHINGTON ". ILUSTRACION ESPAÑOLA Y AMERICANA , AÑO 1874.
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Moscow, Sledging, 1850, Russia, horse
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ON THE ATLANTIC STEAMER
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Japanese ferry, Japan, historic illustration, 1877, Asia
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'The Attempted Balloon Voyage Across The Channel', 1882. Creator: Unknown.
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Railway restaurant in a wagon on the line from New York to San Francisco, 1880, America, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown
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The steam boots / game, Aron Hijman Binger, 1825 - 1845 print. gameboard Board game with compartments numbered from 2 to 60. Above a representation of a steamboat called Mercurius. The boat sails up and down between Amsterdam and Zaandam. In different compartments of images of objects, buildings and figures. In the middle of the title. Amsterdam paper steamship, motorship. board-games. board-games of chance Zaandam
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Queen Alexandra of England disembarking at Morosini dock, Genoa, Italy, photograph by Gennaro Amato from drawing by E Rossi, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXII, No 16, April 16, 1905.
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Looking down the pass which runs from Sibi to Quetta in Baluchistan : the British- built railway offers an alternative to the mule-train on the road. 1885
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The Grain Train arriving in the Italian countryside to demonstrate new agricultural techniques, published in the newspaper La Domenica del Corriere, 1930
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FERROCARRILES. ESPAÑA. EL PASO DEL PUERTO. EL TREN DETENIDO POR LA NIEVE. GRABADO. ILUSTRACION ESPAÑOLA Y AMERICANA.
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Two trains on fire on the Brooklyn Bridge, 1903. Artist: Unknown
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Pedestrians and carts sort it out in Hunderakken, a district of the city. Date: circa 1840
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Edwin Jewitt, active 1855, City Steam and Boat Company: Dinner to Captains.
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Archive illustration: Illustrated description of the Broadway pneumatic underground railway, with a full description of the atmospheric machinery, and the great tunneling machine, 1870- Interior of the Proposed Penumatic Passenger Car.
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The Schneider contest nerve centre: timing at over 300 mph. How the amazing speeds of the seaplanes were recorded: the timekeepers and their work on Ryde Pier. Date: 1929
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The London to Brighton coach pulls into the 'Cock' at Sutton, Surrey. Date: circa 1790
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Train bank over Årstaviken.
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The Trans-Siberian Railway - a network of railways connecting Moscow with the Russian Far East and the Sea of Japan. It is the longest railway in the world. This card shows the Station at Chelyabinsk, the mountainous border with Asia and the trade in furs and skins at Irbit in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia Date: 1904
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This illustration dates to the 1870s and shows the Box Tunnel in England, It was not for a timid engineer and led the way to other longer and longer tunnels.
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The harbor
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Arrival of cyclists from the Thousand Kilometres race, illustration from L'Illustration, No 2610, March 4, 1893.
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Express train at Niagara Falls