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  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: a Pennsylvania Railroad System train engine. Photograph, 1904.
  • A viaduct from a country lane with people resting and travelling. Lithograph by G. Hawkins after G. Pickering.
  • Engineering: point-changing mechanisms for railway track in plan and side elevation. Engraving by W. Read after E. Galloway.
  • Engineering: different types of railway track in plan and side elevation. Engraving by W. Read after Galloway.
  • A collapsed bridge and a railway accident with an overturned train. Process print.
  • Engineering: different types of railway track in plan and side elevation. Engraving by Neele and Stockley.
  • Liverpool: a railway tunnel cut into the mountain side with men working on scaffolding above and cutting stone below. Engraving by J. Davies after C. and G. Pyne.
  • An automatic railway signal system designed by J. Baranowski. Colour lithograph.
  • Engineering: driving wheels of a railway locomotive, and section of piston. Coloured lithograph, 1905, by Stanislas petit.
  • Maps of the French countryside with railway lines and trains. Coloured engraving.
  • Gloucester railway station: a number of porters helping passengers to change trains owing to the change of gauge. Wood engraving by W.J. Linton, 1846.
  • A clock and a further instrument of measurement. Line block process print.
  • A long railway bridge crosses a rocky and watery landscape. Wood engraving.
  • Summit Tunnel, Manchester and Leeds Railway: a locomotive emerging. Coloured lithograph by A.F. Tait after himself, 1845.
  • A railway speculator (James Plush, Jeames de la Pluche) sitting at a table handing out railway share certificates to people (?). Wood engraving, 1845.
  • A Central Pacific railway track running through an area called Red Rock (Nevada?). Photograph, ca. 1880.
  • Canada: the railway crossing the St. Lawrence River; a train with passengers, in the snow. Photograph, ca. 1880.
  • A railway accident. Lithograph by Paul Van Rijssel (Paul-Ferdinand Gachet), 1879.
  • Great Western Railway next to the River Avon at Fox's Wood, Bristol. Tinted lithograph by J.C. Bourne, 1846.
  • Smoking prohibited in this compartment : the maximum fine for ignoring this notice is £5.
  • Great Western Railway: east end of the tunnel at Fox's Wood, Bristol. Tinted lithograph by J.C. Bourne, 1846.
  • The victim of a railway accident approaching the railway board's directors for compensation for his extensive injuries. Watercolour by C.W.D., 1866.
  • A steam train travelling on a track situated along the sidewalk above the level of the shops in New York; carriages and horse-drawn trolley buses are in the street. Wood engraving by J.R. Brown.
  • Civil engineering: plan and elevation of the Kowno railway bridge, Russia. Lithograph by J. R. Jobbins.
  • A woman coughing in a railway carriage. Lithograph after H.M. Bateman.
  • Diseases of animals acts : conveyance of live poultry order of 1919 / C.A. Roberts.
  • A footman at a seaside establishment asks a man who is about to leave if he will take a barrel of sea-water with him on behalf of another resident. Wood engraving by J. Leech, 1846.
  • On railway and other injuries of the nervous system / by John Eric Erichsen.
  • A woman coughing in a railway carriage. Lithograph after H.M. Bateman.
  • Diseases of animals acts : conveyance of live poultry order of 1919 / C.A. Roberts.