The service stretched across seven miles, starting in Altadena, at a station named Mountain Junction, and travelling along Mount Lowe and Echo Mountain

However, gradually as time passed by, less and less people visited the attraction which was slowly losing its appeal due to issues surrounding its routes. Pictured

In 1900, the kitchen of the Echo Mountain House hotel caught fire and gutted the property which was the first of the mountain's attractions and facilities to be crossed off of the route

Just 45 years after the once popular route opened, a flood hit the mountain and washed almost everything from the peaks sides forcing the owners to abandon the railway, and it never reopened

On the opening day, people arrived in droves, with many using the riverboat as a means of transport in 1955

Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt (back right) is shown here in 1933 on board a passenger plane which was supposed to carry her to Chicago, but bad weather forced her to take the train instead

The crew of Imperial Airways liner Heracles at Croydon Aerodrome in 1937 before a flight during which the airliner celebrated completing one million miles in service

This aerial view shows a passenger plane flying over buildings in midtown Manhattan. This was taken after planes started being built from metal rather than wood

Sir Robert Hodgson arrives in Croydon from Paris on an Imperial Airways flight in 1938 - part of the era when air travel changed for good

The tug known as the U.S. Gaton was the first vessel to try out the newly constructed Gatun Locks in the Panama Canal

Mickey Mouse rides in the locomotive cab of a circus train as it arrives at a station in Disneyland in 1955

The area even offered elephant rides, with four tourists perched either side of the large animal, led by a trainer (photo taken in 1905)

An elevated spinning ride at Luna Park, Coney Island in 1904 allowed guests to look out over the park

1970s, Saddar Rawalpindi

In 1963 Construction underway of the Habib Bank Plaza on Karachi’s II Chundrigarh Road.

1963 - Foreigners taking a Rikshaw outside Deans hotel Peshawar.

Old wells on Diriyah Road, April 1980.

Jeddah in 1960's

Hajj Terminal in 1979

A group of tourists in Oberammergau waiting to go skiing in Bavaria. In 1928, skiing attire looked nothing like the uniforms of today

The glamorous R-100, which held 100 passengers, moored in Cardington, England on December 16, 1929

Visitors riding the Loop the Loop ride in 1903 while onlookers observe. A sign warning of pickpockets can be see by the barrier

Riders compete in a game of Wild West Polo at the Coney Island fairgrounds while crowds observe (circa 1900)

Guests could watch circus shows in Luna Park with sideshows involving sword-swallowers and snake charmers

As darkness fell the buildings were lit up against the sky for night time revellers to enjoy the last of the day's activities

Friedrich, became a British citizen in 1939, during his travels which included using the new colour process known as Autochrome. Pictured is Otztal, Austria in 1912

Friedrich skied across ice with some friends in Otztal, Austria in 1912, with an incredible snow-capped backdrop

A young Afghan girl looking through the UN cameraman’s equipment in 1970's

One of the most famous features was Luna Park that opened in 1903 and was a fantasy world with live camels and elephants

In the later years of the 19th century, the rough and tumble party spot was even dubbed ‘Sodom by the Sea'

In the midst of revelling, a preacher from the Brookyln City Mission speaks to crowds who have gathered on the beaches (circa 1900)

Photo of Shiprock Peak, Tsé Bit’a’í, New Mexico on the Navajo Nation. This Beautiful Photo was taken in 1914.

The first jet-assisted take-off performed in the United States. In this August 1941 test,