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Steam Collection (page 8)

Background imageSteam Collection: Famous Steam Engine The Flying Scotsman

Famous Steam Engine The Flying Scotsman
The famous steam engine the Flying Scotsman. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images). The 21.34m-long, 100-tonne machine was designed by Sir Nigel Gresley

Background imageSteam Collection: Airship Ascends

Airship Ascends
24th September 1852: The ascent of French engineer and inventor Henri Giffauds first steam airship. Collection of the Musee de l Aeromautique (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageSteam Collection: Union Pacific Train

Union Pacific Train
A Union Pacific freight train moves through a mountainous area, circa 1930. (Photo by Gabriel Hackett/Getty Images)

Background imageSteam Collection: Kopernicus

Kopernicus
The German built steam engine Kopernicus, fresh from the locomotive factory in Esslingen am Neckar, near Stuttgart. Factory workers stand on and around the new engine

Background imageSteam Collection: Steam Engine

Steam Engine
Steam locomotive Princess Anne at Camden, London, beside an array of LNWR (London North-Western Railway) lower quadrant signals. (Photo by Dean/Getty Images)

Background imageSteam Collection: Thirsty Giant

Thirsty Giant
9th August 1933: A down train on the tebay troughs, Westmoreland taking up water prior to the ascent of Shap Fell one of the steepest main line gradients in the country

Background imageSteam Collection: Railway Houses

Railway Houses
1956: A steam train passing houses which back onto the line, in Yorkshire. Original Publication: Picture Post - 8067 - The Importance of Being Yorkshire - unpub

Background imageSteam Collection: Flying Scotsman

Flying Scotsman
July 1931: The Flying Scotsman train leaves Kings Cross station, London. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageSteam Collection: Royal Scot

Royal Scot
20th February 1933: The Royal Scot steam train in action. It is to be exhibited at the World Fair in Chicago. (Photo by Harry Todd/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageSteam Collection: Steam Locomotive

Steam Locomotive
circa 1950: A steam locomotive. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageSteam Collection: Railway Bridge

Railway Bridge
circa 1950: The cross-over railway bridge at Newcastle on Tyne. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSteam Collection: Drifting Steam

Drifting Steam
circa 1950: A steam train about to enter a newly completed tunnel in Denmark. The tunnel will allow passengers from Copenhagen to travel to the island of Mon. (Photo by Evans/Three Lions/Getty Images)

Background imageSteam Collection: Hoisting Locomotive

Hoisting Locomotive
June 1927: A steam locomotive being hoisted on a ship at Newcastle, bound for India. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageSteam Collection: Loading Locomotive

Loading Locomotive
June 1927: A steam locomotive being hoisted by a crane onto a ship at Newcastle, bound for India. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageSteam Collection: GWR Boat Train

GWR Boat Train
May 1908: The Great Western Railway boat train, taking passengers to the Mauretania, leaving Fishguard station. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSteam Collection: Peruvian Train

Peruvian Train
circa 1950: A Peruvian steam engine. (Photo by Kenneth V. Hilliard/Three Lions/Getty Images)

Background imageSteam Collection: Rail Journey

Rail Journey
circa 1875: A steam train travelling through the Sierra Nevada hills. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageSteam Collection: Stephensons Rocket

Stephensons Rocket
circa 1829: The steam engine designed and built by George Stephenson (1781 - 1848) (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageSteam Collection: LNER Train

LNER Train
October 1929: An LNER locomotive at full steam ahead. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageSteam Collection: Steam Locomotive

Steam Locomotive
circa 1946: Steam Locomotive called the Queen Elizabeth. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSteam Collection: LMS Centenary

LMS Centenary
19th September 1938: The Coronation Class engine Duchess of Gloucester leaving Londons Euston railway station. (Photo by Hudson/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSteam Collection: Pendennis Castle

Pendennis Castle
22nd April 1925: Great Western engine Pendennis Castle pulling a London North East Railway train from Kings Cross Station on its way to Peterborough

Background imageSteam Collection: King Class Locomotive

King Class Locomotive
A Great Western Railway (GWR) 6000 King Class steam locomotive, 2nd July 1930. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageSteam Collection: Eruption

Eruption
April 1958: Naturalist photographer, Charles Lagus filming for the BBC from the crater lip of Bromo, Javas most spectacular volcano as a cloud of volcano ash and smoke fill the sky



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