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Most big factories had rail links and the largest ones had their own on-site networks, worked by an army of small tank engines. These small locos still had to be overhauled during the wartime
A gleaming ex-GWR Castle class loco gets its final attention from Cardiff Canton staff with a polish to the Capitals United Express headboard for the newly introduced titled Cardiff - London express
Boy Scouts train spotting admire the steam locomotive during an open day at the Ashford railway works August 1949
Two very different triumphs of British design from 1933: Sir Giles Gilbert ScottOs former Battersea Power Station and Sir William StanierOs Princess Royal class No
Train-bound passengers, roaring through Bescot on the main line, see only a tangle of tracks cluttered with trucks. 1959
George Stephensons Locomotion No. 1, used to open the Stockton and Darlington RailwayGeorge Stephensons Locomotion No.1, used to open the Stockton and Darlington Railway. c.1825
Centenary celebrations in 1925 for the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway 100 years before
Holidaymakers gather to launch Filey holiday camp 1947 train service
Tractors race at a rally as they are no longer used on a farm
The Avengers television programme 1965 Diana Rigg and Patrick MacNee
Animals Dogs Friendships Prince Grave May 1953 Children lay flowers on the grave of Prince who was the local station masters pet dog
The Queen Elizabeth ship leves the port at Southampton for the last time November 1968
A locomotive train is drawn through the streets of Stretford on the way to the repair shop. June 1943
In the big freeze of early 1947, the railways kept the countryOs lifelines open. This picture shows the progress of an LMS Stanier Black Five locomotive on a highly scenic Scottish journey from Perth
Always a stickler for tradition, the Great Western Railway adorned its locomotives with victorian-style trimmings long after other companies abandoned them
King George Vs Silver Jubilee was an irresistible marketing opportunity for the railways. While the LNER launched the glamourous Silver Jubilee streamlined express
The Southern Railways chief mechanical engineer Oliver Bulleid (formerly Gresleys right-hand man on the LNER) introduced his spectacular Merchant Navy class in 1941
Engines of the Isle of Man Railways. These engines represent keen collectors items. there are about 15 of them in operation
Coal roars down through the new mechanical tipping chute, filling the tender of ex-Great Eastern Railway Claud Hamilton class No
Mighty Riddles Standard class 9F No. 92203 pulls the last steam-hauled iron ore train from Bidston Docks, Birkenhead, to John SummerOs Steelworks at Shotton, Deeside
Sir Richards Summers, who drove the last steam train from Bilston Docks at Birkenhead to the John Summers steelworks at Shotton today Monday. November 1967 X10544-001
A 20 ton truck of coal being completely turned over. December 1924
The 1T57 "Fifteen Guinea Special", the last main-line passenger train to beThe 1T57 " Fifteen Guinea Special", the last main-line passenger train to be hauled by steam locomotive power on British Rail on 11th August 1968 before the introduction of a steam ban that
The massive part that preserved railways now play in British tourism started with the reopening of the Bluebell Line in East Sussex, on August 8, 1960
locomotives at Ghent in belgium waiting to be sent south during fighting on the Western front, World War One. 24th August 1914
A steam train of the London Midland and Scottish railway pictured at Aviemore junction station as it travels from Perth northwards to the Forres in Morayshire. Circa 1950
The unmistakable form of a Great Western Railway locomotive, in the shape of Collett Castle class No. 5051 Drysllwyn Castle
A factory worker tipping a huge cauldron of boiling jam, ready to be packed into jars at the Maidenhead Jam factoy during the Second World War. 28th October 1943
An American locomotive, one of the first batch to arrive in the United Kingdom for many years, being cleaned by women. 14th April 1943
The training ship Wellesley on fire in the Tyne in 1914. The ship part of the Wellesley Nautical School founded in 1868 aimed to train young ment for service at sea
Fairground Steam traction engine, 30th May 1973
A replica of the Stevenson Rocket seen here at the festival of railway. May 1980
Number 9000, the first engine to be completed since VE Day. One of the features is that the frontage lighting is electric instead of the old fashioned oil lamps. here its pictured in the station
The Flying Scotsman steam train leaving Kings Cross station in London on its initial non stop run to Scotland. May 1928
Flying ScotsmanOs incredible longevity in service means it has undergone several major rebuilds. Here, one of its six foot eight inch diameter driving wheels is reprofiled in June, 1987
Steam train on the rail route from Perth northwards to Forres, in Morayshire. This railway cuts across the north-east end of the Grampian range from which form the natural division between
Standing proud is the Canadian Pacific Railway issue steam-operated bell, on the distinctive wedge-shaped air-smoothed front of Gresley A4 pacific No
Over-inflated, out of place and too expensive. No, not Dr. Richard Beeching, but BritainOs railways in the late 1950s. The " good" Dr
The first blooms of spring steam into London Paddington, onboard the the GWRs West of England and Scilly Isles Flower Special in the dark early hours of a February morning in 1937
Spectators cheer the doyen of the GWROs King class, No. 6000 King George V, as it storms past on its way from Swindon (where it was built in 1927)
The liner Queen Elizabeth sets sails from Southampton carrying passengers for the last time. Two children wave her off on her voyage to the Canary Islands. 8th November 1968
Queen Elizabeth II and Duke of Edinburgh: Royal tour of Nigeria 1956: A charming and unusual picture of the Queen and the Duke as the Royal train left Lagos Terminus on Saturday 11th Feb
The beautiful Vale of Rheidol line from Aberystwyth to DevilOs Bridge survived British RailOs 1968 steam cull as it was a narrow gauge tourist line
V1 Flying bomb incident at East Smithfield causing damage and casualties - also fractured gas and water mains-the gas main was well alight
Steam Engine. July 1972 P004916
