Wagons Collection

Gypsy Caravans
A group of travellers and their horse-drawn caravans/wagons. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Levant Mine, St Just in Penwith, Cornwall. 11th July 1894
Tramming with a pit pony at the 278 fathoms main tramming level

Wagons-Lit company poster
Poster extolling the comforts of travelling by rail when you have luxurious sleeper bunks to relax in

Nord Wagons-Lits poster
Poster from French company PLM for the Nord Wagons-Lits London to Vichy Pullman service. A couple enjoy tea in the comfortable interior of a pullman train carriage

Gipsy Hill railway station, south London
Gipsy Hill railway station (LB&SC, London, Brighton and South Coast), south London. Date: circa 1910

Saffron Walden railway sidings, looking east from Debden Road overbridge. At top left is the Great Eastern public house, with a Great Eastern Railway office

Trams causing havoc on a Belfast street
Horses, carts, wagons and pedestrians in an almighty crash involving two trams in Donegal Place in Belfast. The card caption reads: " Our Trammelled Streets" Date: 1905

General view of Exeter Prison, Devon
A general view of Exeter Prison in Devon. Railway lines in the foreground carry a variety of rolling stock including both goods wagons and passenger carriages

French Wagons-Lit poster
Poster advertising the French National Railways Wagon-Lits (sleeper train) service to Switzerland

St Georges Square, Pimlico, London - with a coal delivery (from the wagons in the middle distance) in operation

Acton Good Yard, c1920s

Robert E Lee / Pyle / Spirit
ROBERT EDWARD LEE American Confederate general on his horse, Traveler

Warehouse / Liverpool Dock
Stock is unloaded from horse- pulled wagons and drawn up into the warehouse by rope

Scene near Mametz Wood, Western Front, WW1
German ammunition wagons destroyed by British artillery fire near Mametz Wood on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

London Bridge, heavy with traffic, both vehicular and pedestrian

Louisville, Kentucky
Downtown Louisville, on the Ohio river, is busy with carriages and wagons : it houses a university and is famous for its racetrack

Markham Colliery, Mining
Empty train wagons wait to carry the coal away at Markham Colliery near Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England

The Meat Market, Smithfield, at two in the morning, 1870. Creator: Unknown
The Meat Market, Smithfield, [London], at two in the morning, 1870

Bernina Express, Grigioni, Switzerland

Newnham on Severn Station and Goods Shed, Gloucestershire, c. 1910
A view of Newnham on Severn station in Gloucestershire, c.1910, showing a goods train stopped at the station and the goods shed behind

Old Midleton Distillery, Co Cork, Ireland; 17Th Century Jameson Distillery

Birkenhead goods terminus, Morpeth Dock, 1924
Several men can be seen here checking off goods that have come into the Birkenhead Goods Depot

Silema, Malta - View of the long promenade
Sliema is a resort town on the east coast of the Mediterranean island of Malta. The waterfront features a long promenade (as shown here). Date: circa 1910s

Looking north-west from loading bank to goods shed and goods enquiry office at Saffron Walden Station. Cattle wagon and vent van in cattle dock

Newport Docks, 1950
S.S Lanarkshire loading material for Australia

Haverfordwest Railway Station, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
Passengers waiting for the 1040 to Paddington, on the up platform of Haverfordwest Railway Station in Pembrokeshire, South Wales

The Hay crop from Suttons Grass Seeds
A promotional postcard for Suttons Seeds, Reading - showing women harvesting the hay crop, grown from Suttons Grass seeds

Bognor Regis - Bathing Huts / Wagons
A wonderful photograph by William Pankhurst Marsh of the horse-drawn bathing Wagons at Bognor. The Royal Pier Hotel can be seen

Passage of the Issel (Ijssel), a river which runs through Germany and the Netherlands, by British troops, winter of 1794-1795, during the French Revolutionary Wars. Date: 1794

Gathering Seaweed at Le Hocq, Jersey, Channel Islands - the principle growing agent for the famed Jersey Royal Potatoes, although used less these days. Date: circa 1910s

Mount Rainier and Gateway to the City of Tacoma, USA (note the Old City hall - 8193) - sitting above the extensive Northern Pacific Railroad freight depot (yards) and the Thea Foss Waterway

Firefighters attempt to right a fallen cart, WW2
Firefighters attempt to right a fallen cart in Clerkenwell Close

Waiting at the Cotton Gin - Memphis, Tennessee. A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds Date: circa 1910

American 43rd Balloon Company, western front, WW1
Men of the American 43rd Balloon Company on the road to Bertrange Farm on the western front during the First World War. Date: 1918

A group of cowboys in a field

Manchester Ship Canal - Unloading bananas
Unloading bananas from a steamship liner moored up on the Manchester Ship Canal directly into railway wagons on a track on the edge of the quayside

Billingsgate Fish Market - Fresh Haddock
Fresh Haddock brought to Billingsgate Fish Market in London on large wagons Date: 1912

St Nicholas Church on The Old Town Square in Prague. This famous baroque Church decorated with sculptures by Antonin Braun was completed in 1735

Oxford Street 1928
There are still horse-drawn wagons to be seen in Oxford Street among the motor buses, trucks and cabs : note the many shop blinds, rarely if ever seen here today

Covent Garden 1905
Covent Garden : horse-drawn carts and wagons arrive, piled high with fruit and vegetables for the dining tables of London

Shaftesbury Home, Bisley - Farm Work
Shaftesbury Home, Bisley - boys load hay from wagons onto haystacks. Date: 1890s

Colour tinted photo of Box Tunnel, c. 1920s
Colour tinted photo of Box Tunnel, c.1920s

Royal Horse Artillery - Gun Team
Royal Horse Artillery Gun Team - Horse artillery differs from field artillery in that the whole gun detachment is mounted and the gun and wagon aretherefore freed from the load of men

City of London Infirmary, Bow Road, East London
Situated where Mile End Road continues as Bow Road, the City of London Union Infirmary (now St Clement's Hospital) opened in 1849 as the City of London Union workhouse

Alabama - Cotton Compress at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama - The Cotton Compress

Worklers pulling along a wagon carrying coal at Priory Colliery in Blantyre, Scotland April 1951

Mormugao, Goa, India - The Quay. Date: circa 1910s

St. Mihiel : St. Mihiel, Sept 1918
UIG5446741 St. Mihiel : St. Mihiel, Sept 1918. American Machine guns and supply wagons at a halt at a shattered town in the eastern half of the St

A wagon fording a stream, c.1625-40 (black chalk andoil on paper stuck on canvas)
SBL7294433 A wagon fording a stream, c.1625-40 (black chalk andoil on paper stuck on canvas) by Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640); National Gallery, London, UK; (add.info.: A wagon fording a stream)

Cold Harbor, Va. Photographer's wagon and tent 1863 (photo)
UIG683916 Cold Harbor, Va. Photographer's wagon and tent 1863 (photo); (add.info.: Cold Harbor, Va. Photographer's wagon and tent); Universal History Archive/UIG

The Loisach Valley in the Bavarian Alps, c.1871 (oil on canvas)
XOS9034536 The Loisach Valley in the Bavarian Alps, c.1871 (oil on canvas) by Kohnholz, Johann Wilhelm Julius (1839-1925); 120 x 151 cm; Kunsthalle, Bremen

Locomotive Defences by an Ordnance Railway Round the Coast, 1860 (litho on paper)
IGM9020810 Locomotive Defences by an Ordnance Railway Round the Coast, 1860 (litho on paper) by White, J

On the Prairie, 1860 (hand-coloured litho)
STM1202131 On the Prairie, 1860 (hand-coloured litho) by Grozelier, Leopold (1830-65); 43.8x65.4 cm; Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri, USA; Saint Louis Art Museum; Museum purchase

Triumphal entry of Cosimo I into Siena, 1636-47 (fresco)
GRL9036357 Triumphal entry of Cosimo I into Siena, 1636-47 (fresco) by Franceschini, Baldassare (Il Volterrano) (1611-89); Villa Medicea della Petraia, Florence, Tuscany

Germans. in Carpathians (photo)
UIG683076 Germans. in Carpathians (photo) by Unknown photographer, (20th century); (add.info.: Germans. in Carpathians); Universal History Archive/UIG

Carriage of the Dessau gas railway, tram with gas traction, at the opening in 1894, Dessau, Germany, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century, Europe

Historical locomotive from 1770, steam carriage by the French engineer Eugnot, historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Side view of a historical locomotive, The Stauffen, in 1870, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Views of the Gotthard railway, development of the railway at the Biaschina gorge in the Valle Leventina in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland, 1898, Historical

Dutch reaction to the British capture of a Dutch convoy and the island of St Eustatius

The shipyard on the island of Nantucket in Massachusetts in the 1870s. From American Pictures Drawn With Pen And Pencil by Rev Samuel Manning c

Street scene in Virginia City, Nevada in the 1870s. From American Pictures Drawn With Pen And Pencil by Rev Samuel Manning c

Old post station on the Colorado prairie. From American Pictures Drawn With Pen And Pencil by Rev Samuel Manning c

Oxen crossing the Great Plains. From American Pictures Drawn With Pen And Pencil by Rev Samuel Manning c

Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois in the 1870s. From American Pictures Drawn With Pen And Pencil by Rev Samuel Manning c

Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1850, from American Pictures Drawn With Pen And Pencil by Rev Samuel Manning c

Rhineland trading wagon with many vases and amphorae, dipper wagon, mobile trader, around 1885, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Coal transport, emptying of the coal carriages into the mass, digital improved reproduction from a publication of the year 1880, Coal transport, emptying of the coal carriages into the mass

Chinese wagon, was used during the journeys through Mongolia, China, reproduction of a woodcut from 1882, digitally improved, Chinese wagon, was used during the journeys through Mongolia

Funicular railway, Funicolare vesuviana, with people on the track on the flanks of Vesuvius, 1890, Naples, Italy, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a photograph by Giorgio Sommer

The Construction of the Metro in Paris, Workers on the Construction Site, 1899, France, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Europe

View of the Church of Our Lady and Stadtkirche in Dresden in 1860, Saxony, Germany, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from an 18th or 19th century original, Europe

Wagon fort in the Middle Ages, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century, exact date unknown

Robbery of a postal wagon by the french, illustrated war history, German, French war 1870-1871, Germany, France, Europe

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"Wagons: A Journey Through Time and Places" Step into the enchanting world of wagons, where history unfolds before your eyes. From Gypsy Caravans to bustling railway sidings, these humble vehicles have left an indelible mark on our past. Travel back to the 11th July 1894 at Levant Mine in St Just, Cornwall. Picture yourself amidst the clatter as they transport precious minerals from deep within the earth. The Nord Wagons-Lits poster takes us further afield, evoking images of luxurious journeys across Europe. In Saffron Walden's railway sidings, we gaze eastward from Debden Road overbridge and witness a scene that once bustled with activity. Atop this captivating view lies a tale waiting to be told – perhaps one filled with adventure or longing. "The Census at Bethlehem" painting captures a moment frozen in time - wagons serving as witnesses to an ancient story unfolding against their sturdy frames. Meanwhile, Gipsy Hill railway station in south London stands as a testament to how wagons played their part in everyday life. Trams causing havoc on Belfast streets remind us that even seemingly mundane moments can hold excitement and chaos when mixed with these trusty vehicles. The Wagons-Lit company poster transports us back to elegance and sophistication - imagine embarking on grand voyages surrounded by opulence. French Wagons-Lit posters beckon us towards Parisian nights filled with romance and intrigue; while Acton Good Yard in the c1920s unveils snapshots of daily life interwoven with wagon-laden stories. A glimpse into Liverpool Dock's warehouse reveals wagons laden with goods ready for export or import - connecting nations through trade routes etched by wheels upon tracks. And finally, Exeter Prison looms large as its walls bear witness to countless tales carried within wagon-bound hearts and can more than just vehicles.