Golden Age of Trains Collection (page 8)

Britains first turbine driven locomotive on view at Euston. The " Turbomotive " at Euston. Note the " radiator " front and double funnel. 27 June 1935

Streamlined and steam. The development of 35 years of railway engineering and design, is shown in the comparisons of the new Egyptian Zipper and the steam locomotive, built in 1902, that it replaces

Huge salvage depot where thousands of tons of valuable salvage arrive from the battlefields to be sorted and sent to various parts of the country for re - manufacture into new war material

Royal visit preparations. The Queens stay room on the Royal Train. 12 February 1947

Inside a railway engine cabin. The fireman shovels coal into the fire. 1938

Engine House, Swindon

Railway and Avon near Bath

London schoolboys leave for Russia. To meet Finnish boys in football match. The first party of British schoolboys to visit the USSR, twenty boys from from the Barnsbury Central School, Islington

Dining car of the Royal Train on its way away from Cape Town. 12 February 1947

Royal visit preparations. A view of the lounge on the Royal Train. It is furnished with South African stinkwood upholstered with materials imported from England!. 12 February 1947

The Royal engineers, Transportation Training Centre, at Longmoor, Hants, held an " At Home" at which the public was shown the various activities of the centre

Royal Hotel Slough Station, view from the Pleasure Grounds

Tunnel No. 2, near Bristol

The Maidenhead Bridge with steam train crossing

Long Tunnel, Foxs Wood (from the West)

Bristol rural landscape with industrial chimneys in background

Bath vista with railway under construction

Two steam trains pass each other. 1933

Pangbourn Station

Advertising in a railway station 1874. Illustration by Alfred Concanen

F C Bishop the driver of the Royal Scot ands Banting checking the engine before leaving Euston on an attempt to break the speed record for Euston to Glasgow run 2 May 1932

The Royal Scot drawn by Locomotive City of London at speed at Bushey Hertfordshire 16th February 1948

John Topham On his garden steam train A John Topham / TopFoto
John Topham On his garden steam train eJohn Topham / TopFoto

Chalk quarry for cement. Greenhithe, Kent - 1953

The Prince of Wales leaves for Australia. Bluecoat boys cheer the Princes train at Horsham (Christs Hospital School)

London to Birmingham Railway North Church Tunnel under construction

From Bournes drawings of the London and Birmingham Railway 1839 Building the retaining wall at Camden Town

Coal trains arrive in London, extra effort begun to show dividends. That extra effort urged by the poster in Ludgate Circus, London, has come in good measure from miners, railwaymen

The new railway steam boat docks, Barrow-in-Furness, North Lancashire, England 28 September 1867

Filming The Game of Life a film about George Stephenson and the first train. Preparing the Rocket 10th September 1920

Filming The Game of Life, a film about the first train invented by George Stephenson
Filming " The Game of Life, a film about the first train invented by George Stephenson. Mr H Hesslegrove, who plays Stephenson, with his complete model of the " rocket "

An old locomotive in Erith, London. 1939

A steam train pass by through the level crossing in Westwood Erith, London, where ground work is taking place. 1937

Mr F Tremain and Mr A Shoveller operating an old locomotive in Erith, London. 1939

Mr F Tremain and Mr A Shoveller operating an old locomotive in Erith, London. 1939

The Turbomotive considered a starting innovation in British railway practice, is at Euston Station after having been built at the Crew works

The Dartford Football Club mascot chats to the engine drivers en route to the match at Derby between Dartford FC and Derby County Football Club in the FA Cup third round. 11 January 1936

S. R. Electric (Poll Hill) / Polhill 1934
S.R. Electric (Poll Hill) /Polhill 1934

children waving to the train driver. 1936

The Turbomotive considered a starting innovation in British railway practice, is at Euston Station after having been built at the Crew works

Steam engine passing by the building work being carried out for the widening of the Maidstone Bridge over the river Medway in Maidstone, Kent. 1939

A steam engine coming through the Shorne level crossing in Kent. 1939

The Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch light railway terminates at Dungeness beach. This engine is crossing the level crossing 1939

Testing electrified railway lines by steam train in Swanley, Kent. 1938

A train worker sits in the signal box on the train platform. 1936

The Turbomotive considered a starting innovation in British railway practice, is at Euston Station after having been built at the Crew works

The Dartford Football Club mascot chats to the engine drivers en route to the match at Derby between Dartford FC and Derby County Football Club in the FA Cup third round. 11 January 1936

Engineers on the track at the front of the locomotive after being derailed at Swanley, Kent. 1938

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