Brill tramway, Buckinghamshire, England

The Brill Tramway was a standard gauge 6-mile (10 km) railway, also known as the Quainton Tramway, Wotton Tramway, Oxford & Aylesbury Tramroad and Metropolitan Railway, Brill Branch in the Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire. It was privately built in 1871 by the 3rd Duke of Buckingham as a horse tram line to help transport goods between his lands around Wotton House and the national rail network. Lobbying from the nearby village of Brill led to its extension to Brill and conversion to passenger use in early 1872. 

Two passenger train locomotives were bought (the one in the pic is obviously an 0-6-0T), but the line had been built for horses and thus trains travelled at an average speed of only 4 miles per hour! The headquarters were in Brill from 1872 to 1899 when the Metropolitan Railway took over operations then London from 1899 to closure in 1935.

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'I like to read a good real book on my bed'

early 1950s Riley 2.5

These cars were participating in NZ's 1952 Southland rally. Next to the Riley 2.5 is an Austin A90. The scene is outside the iconic Wanaka Hotel, which burnt down 6 years later.  (Pic by Digby Paape's father, colorized)

streetcar in Austin, Texas, 1905

The streetcar era lasted from 1891 to 1940 when it was dismantled to make way for internal combustion transport.

Here a woman looks to have just got off a trolley headed for the State Capitol.

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NZR KA 933, a 4-8-4, with a short goods train north of Paekakariki, 1950s

For lots more, get the book New Zealand 1950s Steam in Colour.

traffic in Plac Wileński, Warsaw, Poland, 1975

The big monument in the center-right was the Monument to the Brotherhood of Arms (Pomnik Braterstwa Broni), commonly known as "Four Sleepers" which was removed in 2011.

Milan tram from 1931

See earlier posts.

1956-1959 BMW 507 cabriolet dealer postcard

cars outside the Texas Employment Commission Building in Austin, early 1960s

Now the Texas Workforce Commission, one of several similar buildings near the Texas State Capitol.

Leyland 20-seat railmotor in Greymouth NZ, circa 1937

This was introduced in 1936 and ran over the Midland Line in the early morning with Christchurch Press newspapers for the West Coast. It also carried passengers. See earlier posts (colorized)

Approximate equivalent view today.