Vintage Train Journeys

Photos capturing historical train stations and commuters boarding trains, highlighting the travel culture of the mid-20th century in a nostalgic black and white style.

Vintage Photograph. Commuters boarding train.
Vintage Photograph. Commuters boarding train.
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Anefo photo collection. unknown . The Maas Tunnel (instructions for free people from Rotterdam). July 29, 1962. Rotterdam, South Holland
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Anefo photo collection. Detector to check passengers on arms, Schiphol baggage is checked. February 23, 1971
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Christmas traffic, Stockholm Central Station
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Anefo photo collection. International Motorcros Schijndel. May 26, 1962. Noord-Brabant, Schijndel
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Anefo photo collection. The SS Almanzora with 1900 repaired from Indie on board in the port of Amsterdam. January 3, 1946. Amsterdam
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This Queen Mary Has Radio Control -- Ashore the radio controlled Queen Mary attracts a large crowd as Mr. Pyser removes the "upper deck" at prince of Wales' pond, Blackheath. Model boat enthusiasts and pool side strollers got a surprise the other day when they saw a perfect scale model of the liner "Queen Mary" ploughing steadily across the "Ocean" of prince of Wales Pond, Blackheath. The ship turned, went astern and even hove to off shore, with only the radio antennae to give a clue as to how i
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Anefo photo collection. Pieter Forest Clinic Transport by Red Cross of Patients. April 3, 1962
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Anefo photo collection. Bergen (N.H.). Wedding couple w.j.f. Pikkers-Hoogeboom per 'Bello' the train; This time as a marriage train. August 27, 1955. Bergen (Noord-Holland)
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Wagon set up for viewing
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Anefo photo collection. The new transport company "Amsterdam" (formerly A. Puls). December 31, 1945. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
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trasporto granoturco, mais, 1940
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State Railways, SJ Bus 2496 after traffic accident in Solna 1957.
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1930S Pedestrians In Front Of Hotel Edison Marquee New York City Theater District Manhattan West 47Th Street
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Elsevier photo collection. Sale Bontzak Gamba regularestraat Amsterdam. Public line line. January 8, 1951. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
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Anefo photo collection. The first Red Cross Transport with Medicines from Singapore arrives per Intercross plane in Djokja. September 22, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Yogyakarta
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Poll photo collection. Report Paris. Milk factory: Men's leaning milk buses on a truck. 1950. France, Paris
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The name was previously Igelsta. The station was built in 1916. Mechanical gearing.
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Anefo photo collection. View day Veilinghuis Christie's Amsterdam porcelain called Nanking Cargo VOC ship De Geldermalsen. visitors entrance Christie's auction house Amsterdam. April 19, 1986. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
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Anefo photo collection. Arrival at Central Station in Amsterdam, HDZ swimmers. July 22, 1962. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
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Stratford Tube Train Crash -- No Central Line trains are operating today between Leytonstone and Liverpool Street due to the crash and special buses are operating. This photograph shows a section of the queue for the buses at Leytonstone today. Disaster occurred on London's central line last night, when at 7 p.m. in the rush hour, a packed tube train crashed into the back of another at Stratford. Rescue workers have been toiling all night amidst the wreckage to bring out the dead and injured passengers. April 9, 1953. (Photo by Fox Photos).
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Crowded bus at CST Bombay Mumbai Maharashtra India Copyright: xDinodiaxPhotox
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Image of a few repatrians from Indonesia in a train, on arrival at the N.S. station Weert in Weert.
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ripresa alla stazione di roma trastevere, 1950-1960
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Railways, Savoy. Photo in March 1943. Järnvägare, Savoy. Foto i mars 1943.
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Anefo photo collection. Visit Keizer Selassie, second day, launch of children's dike Tugboat "Shegnew". November 4, 1954. Kinderdijk
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Anefo photo collection. NDSM DOWALLADING "Doha". November 10, 1951. Amsterdam
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Image of the position of the N.S. (Bergland Expres) at the household fair in Amsterdam.
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Image of the ceremony of the owners of the 100,000th car in front of the car sleeping train to Narbonne (Mr. and Mrs. Tonnaer) in the restoration of the N.S. station Amsterdam in Amsterdam. On the right, Mr. A. Tiers, representative of the S.N.C.F., the lucky ones.