Historical Transportation Departures

Depicts various historical transport scenes, including wagons, trains, and stations, showcasing migration and development in the 19th century.

Irish peasants leave their village in wagons, the first stage of their journey from Ireland to America. Date: 1844

Irish peasants leave their village in wagons, the first stage of their journey from Ireland to America. Date: 1844

Aspinwall, Central America: the train starting for Panama. mid 19th century

'Sale of Hyde Park Turnpike', c1876. Creator: Unknown.

The first train leaves Shanghai for Kung-Wang, China. 1876

The Norwegian Trunk Railway - Eisvold Eidsvoll Station, 1854. 'The line is forty-two miles in...length, connecting the capital Christiania with the Mjosen Mjøsa Lake, which...by means of steamers...has brought the most populous...districts in connection with the coast; from which they have hitherto, in consequence of the difficulty of internal communication, been...excluded...What first strikes the traveller on viewing the mountainous character of the ground, is the impracticability of constructing a railway...the utmost skill has been required to overcome the difficulties, while the

'SWAN-UPPING' ON THE THAMES, FROM BRENTFORD AIT.

History of transport, 19th century. Inauguration of the France Railroad in Gerona, on January 20, 1878. This section linked the general line of Catalonia with the French line of Perpignan. Mass and blessing of the first train at Gerona Station. Engraving by Capuz. La Ilustración Española y Americana, 1878. Author: Tomás Carlos Capuz (1834-1899). Spanish engraver.

Engraving depicting open carriages running on a broad gauge track. Dated 19th century

An engraving depicting Cornhill in the time of Elizabeth I, showing the Queen travelling through in a coach. Dated 19th century

Inauguración del primer ferrocarril, entre Shanghai y Kungwan, el 30 de Junio de 1876. Grabado de Rico. La Ilustración Española y Americana, 15 de septiembre de 1876.

Engraving showing the horse-drawn carriage of Queen Victoria in the High Street, Aldgate, leaving the City of London and entering Whitechapel, 1887. Date: 21 May 1887

Many people are riding on and crowding around a large horse-drawn carriage. Wood engraving by M. Jackson, 1862, after A. Hunt.

George Stephenson's Locomotive The Rocket by unknown artist, print, 1830

Illustration depicting a horse-drawn carriage in the Champs-Élysées, Paris. A 4 km run of rails was set down between the Place de la Concorde and the Barriere de Passy in the first instance. Dated 19th century

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

OPENING VICTORIA BRIDGE, QUEENSLAND, 1874

THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF TECK AT SOUTHPORT

The Road to the Goodwood Races, 1844 Illustrated London News July 1844; Black and White Illustration;

New horse-trams in the Champs Elysees are admired by passers-by. Date: 1853

A velocipede race in the Pre Catalan, Paris, France, Velocipede is a human-powered land vehicle with one or more wheels, Bicycle, Historic, digitally ...

FERROCARRILES. ESPAÑA. MADRID. SALIDA DEL PRIMER TREN DE PEREGRINOS PARA ROMA , JUBILEO SACERDOTAL DE LEON XIII , AÑO 1887. GRABADO. ILUSTRACION ESPAÑOLA Y AMERICANA. MADRID PINTADO.

Railway station on the prairie, at 100th meridian

THE NEWFOUNDLAND COD FISHERY

Steam engine exhibition in Beauvais, France, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 1375, Volume LIV, July 2, 1869.

Die Seilbahn in Chicago, USA, Historisch, digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, North America

19th cent. engraving. Electric railway in the Champs Elysees, Paris. 1881.

A train has arrived at a station to be welcomed by crowds of people with banners. Wood engraving.

A congested street in the City of London - buses, wagons and cabs compete for passage. Date: 1870

The Metropolitan Railway in 1869, railway, here Kings Cross station in London, England, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century master, exact original date not known

OPENING OF THE NORTH DEVON RAILWAY. ARRIVAL OF THE TRAIN AT BARNSTAPLE, UK, 1854

After the Regatta on the Thames, thr prize-winning boat is carried through the streets in triumph. Date: 1843

Illustration depicting an electric tram, Northfleet, London. Dated 19th century

An engraving depicting the first successful electric railway by Siemens and Halske at the Industrial Exhibition, Berlin (1879). Siemens & Halske AG was a German electrical engineering company that later became part of Siemens. Dated 19th century

Regents Canal, London: Pleasure boats on the canal at Paddington Basin. Engraving, London, 1849.

Illustration depicting Gloucester Station decorated for the Christmas period. Dated 19th century

Engraving depicting waggons in the yard of Talbot Inn, Southwark. Dated 19th century

Third class passengers (3 of 3) Date: 1847

Disembarkation of a quail transport coming out from Egypt in Marseille, France, historical illustration circa 1893, Europe

Ambulance, New Sebastopol, 1855.

Queen Victoria changing trains at Gloucester, 1849. Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859) favoured the 7ft 1/4inch (2. 2m) broad gauge and designed the Great Western Railway accordingly. However, in the Gauge Act of 1846 Parliament declared that all future railway track should be of the standard 4ft 8 1/2inch (1. 44m) gauge introduced by George Stephenson (1781-1848) on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway. It was not until 1892 that the last broad gauge track was lifted. On her journey back to London from Balmoral the Queen changed from the standard gauge Midland Railway to the broad gauge Great Western Railway. From 'The Illustrated London News'. (London, 6 October 1849).

transport/transportation public transportation tram first electric tram by Siemens and Halske Lichterfelde Station 1881 wood engraving,

A horse pulling a cart falls during a snow storm Date: 18 January 1881

Passengers crowd the platform of a station of the South Western Railway. 1870

An engraving depicting an early railway scene. Dated 19th century

The first train on the railway line of the railway from Dresden to Leipzig, 1839, Saxony, Germany, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Europe

The crew of a freight train abandon their locomotive at the strikers' command during the railway strike on the Wabash and Southwestern system. Texas, March 1885.

Engraving depicting a George-Russell & Co.'s steam crane, used by the Anchor line for loading and unloading vessels. Dated 19th century

Teeter-totter by Geissler

Engraving showing the stern deck, steering apparatus and wheelhouse of I.K. Brunel's steamship 'Great Eastern', 1859. Date: 17 September 1859

TORCHLIGHT LAUNCH OF THE IRON SCREW STEAMER 'AZOFF,' IN THE CLYDE

Underground railway in London, Illustration from 'The Illustrated London News', 13 September 1862

IL ESP Y AMER ASALTO Y DESCARRILAMIENTO DE TREN ANDALUCIA. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

COMMENCEMENT OF THE GREAT NORTH OF SCOTLAND RAILWAY, AT WESTHALL, ABERDEENSHIRE.

The opening of the Lisbon Railway, by the Queen of Portugal. Date: 1853

THOMSON'S ROAD STEAMER AT EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND, 1870

Steerage passengers on board an Atlantic liner. Date: 1889

The races: The Grand Prix of the City of Paris

'Gli Omnibus' - Boarding a horse-bus in the streets of Rome. Date: 1888

transport/transportation public transportation tram horse drawn tram in Charlottenburg wood engraving by Hermann L»ders circa 1870,

traffic railway opening Ludwigsbahn between Nuremberg and Fuerth 7.12.1835 coloured engraving by Carl von Heideloff (1789-1865) first railroad railway line historic historical Germany public viewers specatars advance event events,

Illustration depicting the steam trains at Gower Street Station. Dated 19th century

Engraving depicting Birmingham Railway Station. Dated 19th century

Fleet Street during the snowstorm of Tuesday night of January 18th 1881 showing horses and coaches trapped in the snow. Date: January 1881

Amsterdam, Desguerrois & Co., Netherlands, Mourot, Michel, Solemn inauguration of the Iron Railway between Amsterdam and Haarlem on Friday 19 September 1839. View of the Station on the Haarlemmer Trekvaart near Amsterdam, verso - stamped, Festive inauguration of the first Dutch railway line between Amsterdam and Haarlem of the Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg-Maatschappij on 19 September 1839. On the left the train at the station d'Eenhonderd Roe, in the middle the Haarlemmertrekvaart, in the foreground a large group of spectators. At the bottom a vignette with the coats of arms of Amsterdam and Haarlem resting in a (steam) cloud., print, prent, prints, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 365 mm, width 245 mm, 1803-10-11 - 1847-07-27, print maker, printmaker, 1839 - 1839, paper, papier, letterpress printing, boekdruk, intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, Dutch, printer, drukker, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

Arrival of Queen Victoria from England by carriage in Charlottenburg, Germany, Historic, digital reproduction of an original 19th-century artwork, Eur...

This illustration shows the first railroad train in England. All is festivity to mark its run. You can see the tracks along which it will run to the left. The illustration dates to the 1890s.

A stagecoach station on the transcontinental line in Utah, America, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown

American railway carriage interior, vintage engraved illustration.

COMMENCEMENT OF THE PERNAMBUCO RAILWAY, ON THE ISLAND OF NOGUEIRA

The railway bridge over the main nose case on the line between Vänersborg and Vargön.

COLLATION, AT THE OPENING OF THE NORWEGIAN TRUNK RAILWAY, 1854

The royal post from Louth to London, on the way by train from Peterborough East, Northamptonshire, December 9, 1845, England, historically, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, Record Date Not Stated 1f-4913501

To races. / 402 (registered title) | News. (Title of the set)

Pedestrians and vehicles make slow progress down Whitehall, London. Date: 1875

A variety of steam-driven vehicles with passengers travelling along Whitechapel Road in London. Colour process print after H.T. Alken.

During the Pullman Strike of 1894, the first meat Train leaving Chicago Stock Yards was escorted by United States Cavalry, July 10, 1894.

The Workmen's Train. An early morning scene on a crowded London Underground platform. After an illustration by Gustave Doré in the 1890 American edition of London: A Pilgrimage, written by Blanchard

First Run of the Sixth Avenue Elevated Train in 1878 by unknown artist, print

COMMENCEMENT OF THE ST. ANDREW'S AND QUEBEC RAILWAY, 1852

Taking in Water at Parkside, from Bury's Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1831

The illustration, on October 19, 1895 / The transport of the Savoyard, to the Church of the Sacred Heart. - The trip from La Chapelle station to Montmartre.

A combined garden roller and watering machine, Paris. Date: 1859

$Great Eastern' on the stocks in John Scott Russell's (1808-1882) yard at Millwall on the Thames. View from the stern. Double-hulled, of all iron construction, and powered by four steam engines driving both paddle wheels and screw propeller, she was intended for the passenger trade between Britain and Australia and India. After a few troubled passenger voyages she was sold for £25,000, a fraction of the building cost of probably £500,000, and converted to a cable laying ship In this role she was used in laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable in 1865-1866, and other similar projects. She was Isambard Kingdom Brunel's (1806-1859) last great project. He collapsed on her deck on her launch in 1858 and died a few days later. From 'The Illustrated London News'. (London, 7 November 1857). Chromolithograph.$

Illustration depicting a busy platform at Birmingham Railway Station. Dated 19th century

Lancaster Station, U.K., 1846, Opening of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway

Great Regatta of Madras, Canoes, 1869, India, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date unknown, Asia

Scene of the railway accident at Swansea, south Wales, 1865. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. Gulliver. 'The accident which happened...close to the Swansea terminus of the Vale of Neath Railway, was one of a very remarkable kind. It appears that the railway there passes over an iron drawbridge...this bridge being made with a movable portion in the centre, which may be withdrawn or replaced at discretion, by the power of one of Sir W. Armstrong's hydraulic engines, so as to open the entrance to the dock for the passage of shipping. At six o clock that morning, when the coal-trains were abou

Clearing the road through a snow-wreath on the Highland Railway, Scotland. Date: 1866

A carriage at a post station in the Sierra Nevada, Spain, c. 1880, Historic, digital reproduction of an original 19th-century original, Europe

Buggies and wagons were virtually at ease, vintage engraved illustration. Jules Verne Mistress Branican, 1891.

Illustration depicting the arrival of Queen Victoria at Tottenham Station on route to Cambridge. Dated 19th century

Powder boat stopping in Port Saint-Paul on August 6, 1789 Pierre-Gabriel Berthault according to Jean-Louis Prieur the young. "Powder boat stopped at Port Saint-Paul on August 6, 1789".

Works of the Midland Railway Terminus, Euston Road in 1868. Date: 15th

NEW YORK CITY, South Street & the Seaport, circa Al Smith's childhood in the late 1800's.

FUEGO EN EL TREN DE BROOKLYN - GRABADO COLOREADO - SIGLO XX. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. France.

THE FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT: RAILWAY NEAR RADSTOCK, ENGRAVING 1876, UK

The Suez Canal near Al Kantara, Syrian caravans waiting to be ferried across. Egypt, 19th century.

transport transportation railway accidents France Puteaux wood engraving 19th century,

Illustration showing the Velocipede Riding School in New York City. 1869.

History of transport, 19th century. Inauguration of the France Railroad in Gerona, on January 20, 1878. This section linked the general line of Catalonia with the French line of Perpignan. Arrival of the train with the Spanish commission at Port-Bou station. Engraving. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1878.

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