Images Dated 2017

Chalford Station, Gloucestershire, 1964

A view from Chalford Station in Gloucestershire, looking east. Taken in April 1964, the image shows a railmotor and the signal box which remained in use until 1965.
Chalford station opened in August 1897 and closed in November 1964

© STEAM Museum of the GWR

1960s, 1964, Chalford, Chalford Station, Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, Signal Box, Station

Bristol Temple Meads Station, c.1843

Lithograph by John Cooke Bourne of Brunel's train shed at Bristol Temple Meads Station in c.1843, a few years after the station opened in 1840. Railway workers are dealing with the locomotives and wagons with some onlooking passengers watching from the platforms. The perspective of the print shows the massive scale of the 200ft (60m) long structure and its magnificent roof

© STEAM Museum of the GWR

King George V in America in 1927

King George V with the crew that travelled with the locomotive to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Centenary celebrations in America in 1927. From left to right: George Dando, Fred Williams, William Stanier, Lillian Schueler (dressed as Britannia), William Young and George Pearce

Baltimore And Ohio Railway, King George V