Gloucester railway station: a number of porters helping passengers to change trains owing to the change of gauge. Wood engraving by W.J. Linton, 1846.

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[1846]
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29545i
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Gloucester railway station: a number of porters helping passengers to change trains owing to the change of gauge. Wood engraving by W.J. Linton, 1846. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The porters wear livery marked GWR (Great Western Railway). Gloucester was the meeting point of two railway lines, the narrow gauge line (4ft 8½ inches) running northwards to Birmingham and the other broad gauge (7ft) southwards to Bristol. At the change of gauge, passengers, luggage, parcels, freight and animals had to be transferred from one carriage to another

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[London] : [Illustrated London News], [1846]

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1 print : wood engraving ; image 23.5 x 35.5 cm

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W.J. Linton sc. 85 Hatton Garden London Letterpress lettering: The break of gauge at Gloucester. Passengers and luggage being shifted from the broad gauge to the narrow gauge carriages.

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Wellcome Collection 29545i

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