British standard steel rails, cast iron chairs and wooden sleepers, 1924.

British standard steel rails, cast iron chairs and wooden sleepers, 1924.

Length of Blenkinsop's rack rail, c 1812.

Freight wagons, Stansted goods yard, Essex, 14 January 1954.

Broken cast iron plate rail from the Surrey Iron Railway, c 1806.

George Francis Train, American merchant and promoter, 1860.

Three hundred on first London road-rail-river trip, 30th August 1934

Design for improved iron rails, 1824.

'Electricity in the Bathroom', c 1890s.

Glyn Valley Tramway, locomotive 'Denis' on a Train.

Early plateway on the Ticknall Tramway, Derbyshire, 1799.

Travellers going on holiday by rail, late 1