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.