17th April 1963: St. Louis Missouri, USA on Olive St, between 17th and 18th.
Tag Archives: Transportation
On this day: Vintage Manchester
A bus in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England is seen here on the 8th of April, 1973.
Bolton – once a mill town – was a hub for Flemish weavers as early as the 14th century.
The vehicle in the photograph is painted in the colours of the former Bolton Corporation municipal buses, and is seen opposite the bus station, on Black Horse Street.
On this day: a final railway journey in England
The passenger train at Tenterden Town railway station in England runs for the last time on the 2nd of January, 1954. All railway traffic ceased in 1961. The locomotive was built in 1896, and rebuilt in 1908.
Tenterden is in Kent in the south of the country, and the railway opened in the year 1900.
Today, a tourist heritage railway operates.
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H.M.S. Electra, struck by a “whirlwind” on the passage from Auckland, New Zealand to Sydney, New South Wales on the 20th of November 1856.
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This advertisement for the American-made Essex motor vehicle ran in The Country Gentleman on the 4th of November, 1922.
On this day: a Rail Disaster in London
The United Kingdom’s worst peacetime rail disaster occurred at London’s Harrow and Wealdstone station on the 8th of October, 1952.
112 people were killed when the City of Glasgow – an express train from Perth, Scotland – crashed into the back of a local passenger train at rush hour. The wreckage covered other rail lines, resulting in a third train – another express – to crash.
The wrecked City of Glasgow.
In addition to over a hundred deaths, 340 other people were injured, with 88 transported to hospital for treatment.
An investigation found that the driver of the Perth train missed three signals before crashing, but as those involved were killed, the reason for this was never discovered.
On this day: Chicago’s “L” Under Construction
The “L” – short for Chicago’s elevated train system – is seen here under construction on the 22nd of September, 1968.
The first image is of work underway on Sox–35th station.
The second image is of work on 69th Street.
On this day: the opening of Wagga Wagga Railway Station
The railway station in the New South Wales, Australia town of Wagga Wagga opened on the 1st of September, 1879.
The design for the station can be seen below.
On this day: a last train in Adelaide
Adelaide, South Australia on the 31st of May, 1914. It was the last day the Glenelg train came up King William Street.
On this day: a Station in Wales
This photograph is dated the 20th of May, 1961, and is of Buckley Junction Station.
Buckley, a village in the Flintshire region of Wales, is known for its distinct dialect. The unique way of speech is dying out as people come and go from the area.
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