Tramline Gallery

Blackpools Tram Cars

Blackpool's Luxury Streamline Tram Cars, including double ('Balloon') and single decker varieties and a fully open boat tram. Many of these vintage tramcars are still running, maintained by enthusiasts and the money from holidaymakers who have made the resort famous. The Blackpool tramway runs from Blackpool to Fleetwood on the Fylde Coast in Lancashire, England, and is the only surviving first-generation tramway in the UK. Built by the English Electric Company of Preston, Lancashire. Date: 1930s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Pennsylvania Railroad Station, Market Street West at Penn Square, 1889 (albumen print)

567795 Pennsylvania Railroad Station, Market Street West at Penn Square, 1889 (albumen print) by American Photographer, (19th century); Free Library of Philadelphia; (add.info.: "This high-angle view of the famous station, built in 1881 in the heyday of monumental railroad architecture, is along Filbert Street, and shows the northern side of the old Chinese Wall, which was actually the viaduct for the tracks."--OPEP. Designed by Wilson Brothers & Company Architects.); A© Free Library of Philadelphia ; American, out of copyright

© © Free Library of Philadelphia / Bridgeman Images

The Thames Embankment and Somerset House, London, c1915. Creator: Unknown

The Thames Embankment and Somerset House, London, c1915. First built for Lord Protector Somerset in 1547-1550, Somerset House was the first Renaissance palace in England. It was substantially rebuilt to designs by Sir William Chambers in the late 18th century, at which time the Thames flowed up to the palace's frontage. Somerset House was the home of many royal societies in the 18th and 19th centuries. From 1836-1973 it housed the offices of the General Register of Births, Deaths and Marriages. The Embankment was designed by the civil engineer Joseph Bazalgette to accommodate his new sewer system and to provide a thoroughfare alongside the River Thames. Postcard

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