Archive Collection (page 67)

The Civic Restaurant in Foleshill, Coventry Part of the rebuilding of post war Britain, the eleven civic restaurants built not only serve food but also serve as a venue for community dances

Mechanical excavators loading chalk directly onto railway trucks for the short run to the cement works. 24th September 1949

The coffin of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, at Vienna Railway Station. January 30th 1889, found in a hunting lodge at Meyerling, the bodies of the Rodolphe archduke

Chat Moss threatened the completion of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, until George Stephenson succeeded in constructing a railway line through it in 1829; his solution was to "

Three men standing in a tunnel, these men have just begun to bore one of three tunnels through the rugged Wasatch Mountains

Santa Fe type built by Baldwin Locomotive Works 1917

At Waterloo station Boarding the trains. 1 February 1936

Cornish Riviera Express. 1904 - 1954

Mallet class steam locomotive. Purchased by the Union Pacific Railroad company from Norfolk & Western for helper service out of Cheyenne, Wyoming. First of type built in 1910 for freight service

Steam Engine Green Goddess ( 1 ) on the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway at Hythe station, Kent, UK, England. 1950s

Steam Train Mastodout (?) Italy nineteenth century

Richborough Train Ferry on the east coast of Kent showing steam engines being transported

Steam Hudson Locomotive New York Central System
Steam Hudson Locomotive " New York Central System"

The crowded platform at Sidcup railway station, full of schoolboys waiting to get onto the arriving train. 1935

Cold Meece Station staffordshire Station Masters garden

The famous Atlantic Coast Express which runs daily from Waterloo as far as Padstow in Cornwall was hauled by a steam engine for the very last time

Box tunnel showing the West Portal - Box Tunnel is a railway tunnel in western England, between Bath and Chippenham, dug through the Box Hill

19th Century M W Baldwin & co Locomotive Builders Philadelphia Iron City

Opening of the Stockton & Darlington Railway 1825

Loading a train at New Congo Railway from Matadi to Stanley Pool 1898 Cape to Cairo railway during construction

The Flying Scotsman leaving Kings Cross for Edinburgh on the Centenary of the East West Route 7th August 1950

Decades - 1950s - Night Mail from London (steam train) - Letter arrives in Scotland

Model of Stephensons Killingworth locomotive 1815-1820 (right side) ? TopFoto

Central Pacific Railroad are constructing the western end of a road to connect with Union Pacific from the east

An overview of the Richborough Train Ferry on the east coast of Kent showing the ramp between boat and land

Building of the East Bengal Railway 1869-1872

Steam train Scotland

Golden Arrow Steam train

The Jenny Lind locomotive was the first of a class of ten steam locomotives built in 1847 for the London Brighton and South Coast Railway by E.B.Wilson and Company of Leeds

The Great Western Society has staged an Open Day at Taplow Station Goods Yard near Maidenhead, Berks. The main attraction was the Pendennis Castle engine

Nigerian troops entrained on the Northern Railway German Cameroon WWI

Britains Newest express train The Caledonian thunders through Watford to Glasgow 17th June 1957

Oblique wooden bridge, Bath

East Entrance to Long Tunnel, Foxs Wood

Bath vista with railway under construction

Advertising in a railway station 1874. Illustration by Alfred Concanen

The Duchess of York c. 1810 by Peter Eduard Stroehling - oil on copper in The Royal Collection
The Duchess of York c.1810 by Peter Eduard Stroehling - oil on copper in The Royal Collection, London. - Frederica Charlotte of Prussia (1791 - 1820)

H. R. H. The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) Portrait by Nadar - 1912
H.R.H. The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) Portrait by Nadar - 1912

The Coronation Durbar of King George V and Queen Mary in India. Pictured is the investiture ceremony. Delhi - December 1911

The Spotted Dog public house. Smarts Hill, Penshurst, Kent, England 10 July 1963

John Nash design for the Royal Pavilion in Brighton - The Great Kitchen was one of the first areas to be completed as part of John Nashs reconstruction of the Pavilion

Life Magazine - Volume LVI No 1447 Dyspeptics Number Small children and a dog look upon an advert for Porridge 21 July 1910

Giant Christmas Pudding Presented by Lord Mayor of London Aldeman Clement James Harman /; 12 December 1963

The dinner lady serving lunch at a girls school in Orpington, Kent. 1937

Southern Railway (SR) Electric at Poll Hill, Kent. 1934

Edsel Corsair
A 1959 Edsel Corsair, circa 1959. (Photo by Ed Carlin/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Specimen jars at an anatomy exhibition
Anatomical specimens. A visitor looks at specimen jars at an anatomy exhibition. Second from right is a jar containg a pair of conjoined twins

Martin Alister Campbell Hinton (1883-1961)
Portrait of Martin Alister Campbell Hinton, a zoologist and keeper of zoology at the British Museum (Natural History). From Piltdown, A Scientific Forgery

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