Transport Collection (page 2)

Pioneer CC. 1 XL702 of 20 Squadron, RAF
Scottish Aviation Pioneers of 20 Squadron tied down between sorties, 1969-1970

Passengers awaiting flight, Shoreham, 1940
Passengers at the check-in desk in the departure lounge, Shoreham Airport, 1940

Immigration at Shoreham Airport, 1940
Passengers being questioned by Home Office officials, Shoreham, 1940

Track testing equipment on an experimental electric train, 17 November 1931

Lord Hawke
Southern Railway 4-6-0 Lord Nelson Class 860 Lord Hawke at Waterloo Station, 1934

4-6-0 738 with train
Southern Railway King Arthur Class 4-6-0 locomotive King Pellinore with a London Bridge to Wimbledon service

Sentinel Steam Railcar Neptune
Sentinel Steam Railcar 265 Neptune of the London & North Eastern Railway, built to Diagram 89 in 1928

Pullman passengers
Passengers boarding Southern Railway Pullman carriages at Victoria Station

Waiting to set off
A mother anxiously hangs on to her son while he looks out of the carriage window

Inauguration of the boat train service, Dover 1936
The first boat train service from London to Paris boarding the Southern Railway cross-Channel ferry SS Hampton Ferry at Dover

Lord Anson at Wimbledon
The Mayor and Mayoress of Wimbledon on the footplate of Southern Railway Lord Nelson Class 4-6-0 locomotive Lord Anson with its designer Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell (in bowler hat) close by

Southern Belle crossing Ouse Valley Viaduct
Southern Railway King Arthur Class 4-6-0 locomotive 793 Sir Ontzlake at the head of an express crossing the Ouse Valley Viaduct at Balcombe

Atlantic Coast Express
Maunsell S15 Class 4-6-0 locomotive 827 of the Southern Railway hauling the Atlantic Coast Express

The R-34 during flight trials before its Atlantic crossing
The British R-34 was based closely on the Zeppelin L33 and in 1919 made the first double crossing of the Atlantic Ocean

Comet 4C
Hawker Siddeley Comet 4C (OD-ADR) of Middle East Airlines at Beirut Airport, Lebanon, 1961

Latecoere 631 of Air France

Heathrow Airport, 1945
London Heathrow Airport under construction, 30 October 1945

Saro Princess
Saunders Roe Princess (G-ALUN) in flight, SBAC Show Farnborough, September 1953

Lubricating the motion of Lord Nelson
Southern Railway Lord Nelson Class 4-6-0 locomotive 850 Lord Nelson being prepared for its first service from Waterloo

Breakfast on a Southern Railway service in the 1930s

Ferry construction for the Southern Railway, Tyneside February 1934
The construction of a new ferry for the Southern Railway at a shipyard on the River Tyne

Waterloo Station, 3 May 1933
Travellers checking the new prices at Waterloo Station

Bournemouth Limited
Southern Railway King Arthur Class 4-6-0 locomotive 789 Sir guy at the head of an express

Southern Belle inaugural run, 1931
King Arthur Class 4-6-0 locomotive E780 Sir Persant hauling the Southern Belle between London and Brighton

Overhauling a King Arthur engine at Nine Elms, 1925
Men working on a Southern Railway King Arthur Class 4-6-0 locomotive at Nine Elms

Tupolev Tu-104
The first Tupolev Tu-104 operated to London Heathrow Airport by Aeroflot, 22 March 1956

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