Windsor Castle

Windsor Castle and goods train


A carte-de-visite showing a view of Windsor Castle with a goods train crossing the fields below the castle. The train appears to be laden with coal, or something similar.

The arrival of the railways transformed the British landscape, an intrusion viewed with hostility by many people, who considered trains to be the unacceptable face of progress. It is therefore possible to read this photograph as an allegory of modern life, with, in the background, the stately majesty of Windsor Castle embodying the past and traditional values, and, in the foreground, the train representing the future and ‘progress.'

Photographed by George Washington Wilson of Aberdeen.

 


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