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Photograph of Ladycroft Bridge on the Mid-Hants Railway Taken about 1865 The Mid-Hants Railway opened in 1865 linking Alton with the London and South Western Railway line from London to Basingstoke ...

Print, uncoloured lithograph, Basingstoke from Chapel Field, view of the railway, Basingstoke, Hampshire, about mid 1840s.
The railway is the newly opened London and Southampton Railway, renamed the London and South Western Railway, LSWR, 1839. The station has a horse carriage for passengers at its entrance; the disk signal is the distinctive LSWR design by Albinus Martin introduced about 1840; coaches on the train are three compartment ?six wheelers; the locomotive is a 2-2-2, tall chimney, forward dome, ?slanted cylinders, perhaps the Metoer type built at Nine Elms mid 1840s? In the foreground is a corner of Holy Ghiost Chapel.

Print, uncoloured lithograph, Basingstoke from Chapel Field, view of the railway, Basingstoke, Hampshire, about mid 1840s.
The railway is the newly opened London and Southampton Railway, renamed the London and South Western Railway, LSWR, 1839. The station has a horse carriage for passengers at its entrance; the disk signal is the distinctive LSWR design by Albinus Martin introduced about 1840; coaches on the train are three compartment ?six wheelers; the locomotive is a 2-2-2, tall chimney, forward dome, ?slanted cylinders, perhaps the Metoer type built at Nine Elms mid 1840s? In the foreground is a corner of Holy Ghost Chapel.

Photograph of the Mid-Hants Railway Line near King's Worthy Taken about 1865 This photograph was taken when construction of the Mid-Hants Railway linking Alton with the main London to Southampton line ...

Lithophane, porcelain, smear glazed, showing a scene in a second class railway carriage, the train is nearing a dockyard, from where the young boy is to go to sea, he is accompanied by his mother and ...

Lithophane, porcelain, smear glazed, showing a scene in a first class railway carriage, a young man in naval officer's uniform is in conversation with an elderly gentleman whilst a young woman simpers ...