Welcome to the website of Online Transport Archive (OTA).
The archive administers a constantly growing collection of cine film, slides, negatives, prints and commercial post cards relating to all forms of transport from all over the world – currently, the archive has over 2,000,000 still images and over 4000 hours of film footage. Charitable status was achieved in January 2004.
OTA provides a safe and secure home for photographic collections and makes the material available to publishers, authors, researchers, and film producers, particularly when used to support fundraising activities for transport preservation projects.
Birmingham Corporation 2289, a 1949 all-Crossley DD42, in the city centre en-route for the Beeches Estate on route 51. Photo by W Ryan
Liverpool Overhead Railway unit 4-47-17 approaches Liverpool city centre with a train for Dingle in late summer 1956, a few months before the LOR closed for good. Photo by John McCann
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A pair of aircraft on the tarmac at Heathrow in the late 1950s. Nearest the camera is BEA G-AOHV a Vickers Viscount new in 1957. Taxiing is a Vickers Viking of Hunting Clan Air Transport. Photo by Julian Thompson.