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Nice photo. Added to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver_Zephyr Thanks for posting these!

Thanks! Keep checking back, we're going to be putting up quite a few items over the next week or two.

What a beautiful photo! Thank you very much!

Just love these amazing Zephyr trains. Wish one could still ride them. (BTW I noticed that the Wikipedia article on the Denver Zephyr caries the same photo with only the information 'promotional photo': en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver_Zephyr)

If you click on that image, you'll see the credit back to here.

Five of the six killed on 27 August were fast asleep when a train full of passengers returning from their holidays in Ireland collided with another train at a speed of 70 mph near Penmaenmawr, Caernarfonshire. As a result of a mix up in the signal box a small engine was making its way towards Llandudno when the Irish Mail fast train was travelling in the same direction on the same line. A fireman on board the small engine heard the Irish Mail coming and signalled to the signal box with his lamp that a collision was about to happen. The signal changed from green to red but it was too late. The passenger train collided into one of the small engine's coal wagons pushing it forwards for about 240 yards, ripping the tracks as they moved forward. The force of the collision shattered Irish Mail's dormer carriage and five people inside were killed, further carriages were thrown off the rails. Source: Gwyn Jenkins (ed.), 'Llyfr y Ganrif' (Talybont, Y Lolfa, 1999). education.gtj.org.uk/en/item10/24437

This is a classic Victorian employer / employee shot - often taken outside a shop - but with a wonderful difference in this case. I love the railway workers on the track - you can even see one of them holding some kind of wrench. The more important people seem to be standing on the platform near the train, but I can't quite pick out the station master among them. I love all the effort that went into setting this shot up - getting everyone together, parking the train up - and now, 124 years after it was shot, it's still as good a photo as the day it was taken.

Hi, Thank you for your comment. I agree that it's a very strong image and it would be really interesting to know how John Thomas set up this shot. This railway station was part of the Bala - Ffestiniog line through Wales, but the line was closed to passengers on 2 January 1960. The station building is now a private residence and the adjoining goods yard and military station site are in agricultural use.