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Darren Hendley


Photography & Digital Imaging

New image - New York Crystal Palace, 1853

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From The Illustrated London News, Saturday August 13, 1853, "Inauguration of the New York Crystal Palace, platform in the North nave".

The New York Crystal Palace was an exhibition building constructed for the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City in 1853, under the presidency of Mayor Jacob Aaron Westervelt. The building stood in Reservoir Square.

Express engine for London and North-Western Railway

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From The Illustrated London News, Saturday December 18, 1852. The magnificent new engines now worked on the London and North Western-Railway for the express trains are of the largest class of passenger engines yet introduced upon the narrow gauge. They combine several important improvements, which have recently been patented by Mr McConnell, the locomotive engineer of the company. Download from iStockphoto.

Bluebell Railway tilt-shift - a real life train set

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I'm rather proud of this one - a tilt-shift image of a steam train entering Sheffield Park Station on the Bluebell Railway.

"The volunteer run Bluebell Line was the UK's first preserved passenger railway, re-opening part of the old London Brighton & South Coast Railway in 1960. Since then it has developed into one of the largest tourist attractions in Sussex, remaining true to its objectives of the preservation for posterity of a country branch line, its steam locomotives, coaches and goods stock, signalling systems, stations and operating practices."

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