Rail Transport Collection (page 2)

Train Race
1830: Trial between Peter Coopers Locomotive Tom Thumb and one of Stocktons and Stokes Horse Cars. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Busy Railroad
Steam engines on a steel bridge at Richmond, Virginia, circa 1925. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

First Class Travel
First passengers arriving on an early French railway. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Fleeing Cholera
People rush for trains in an effort to flee a cholera outbreak in the south of France after the arrival of a ship from the east. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Railway Opening
27th September 1825: The opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the worlds first public railway. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Railway Junction
January 1868: Junction of the Midland, Great Northern and Metropolitan railways at Kings Cross, London. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Christmas Train
circa 1865: The Christmas train on the Eastern Counties Railway being loaded up with Christmas parcels and luggage by passengers, helped by porters

Euston Station
1837: A platform at Eustion Station, part of the London and Birmingham Railroad. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Brunels Station
circa 1845: Isambard Kingdom Brunels Elizabethan hammerbeam roof and colonnade at the Great Western Railway Station at Temple Meads in Bristol. (Photo by Edward Gooch/Edward Gooch/Getty Images)

Dining Car
circa 1910: A de luxe dining car on board a train with dining car staff in attendance. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

American Locomotive
circa 1860: The De Witt Clinton locomotive of 1831 - the first American locomotive. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Train Station
circa 1890: Lime Street Railway Station at Liverpool. (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)

Clifton Depot Great Western Railway, Canada
1859: Passengers waiting at the Clifton Depot on the Great Western Railway, Canada. The Niagara Suspension Bridge is seen in the background

Suspended Railway
1859: Two men sit on the cliffs as a steam train crosses the Railway Suspension Bridge over the Niagara River, built in 1855 by John A Roebling to carry the Grand Trunk Railway between Canada

Crossing Niagara
1859: A steam train crosses the Railway Suspension Bridge over the Niagara River, built in 1855 by John A Roebling to carry the Grand Trunk Railway between Canada and New York State, USA

Columbia Bridge
1859: A steam train on the Columbia Railway Bridge, crossing the Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania. (Photo by William England/London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)

Station Entrance
circa 1870: The entrance to Euston Station in London. (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)

Temple Meads
circa 1890: Great Western Railways Temple Meads Station in Bristol designed by British civil engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)

Mechanicville Controller
A railroad despatcher looking over the railway yards at Mechanicville on the The Boston & Maine Railroad, New York State, January 1928. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Abbots Ripton Crash
The aftermath of a train crash at Abbots Ripton, Huntingdonshire, January 1876. (Photo by Illustrated London News/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Train Over The Tamar
A train crosses the Royal Albert Bridge over the River Tamar at Saltash, Cornwall, circa 1880. Designed by British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the bridge was completed in 1859

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