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Subject Railway construction Level [40] File

81. Photo 1178(25)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1178(25)
Title:
Matara Railway, Nov. 1895. Matara Station yard looking west. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
General view looking along the line towards the station buildings and sidings, with European and Singhalese figures posed beside the locomotive in the foreground.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Nov 1895
Extent:
1 item

82. Photo 1178(26)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1178(26)
Title:
Matara Railway, November 1895. Cuttings Nos. 180 and 181 with ballast train. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
View looking down onto a ballast train crowded with labourers.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Nov 1895
Extent:
1 item

83. Photo 1178(27)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1178(27)
Title:
Matara Railway, Nov. 1895. Waggal Modera Bridge, 80 feet span. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
View looking along the line towards the girder bridge across the Waggal Modera Ela stream.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Nov 1895
Extent:
1 item

84. Photo 1178(28)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1178(28)
Title:
Matara Railway, Nov. 1895. Cripps' Hill Tunnel, east face. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Close view of the entrance to the tunnel, with a European seated on a railway trolley in the foreground.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Nov 1895
Extent:
1 item

85. Photo 1178(29)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1178(29)
Title:
Matara Railway, Nov. 1895. Ahangama Station. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
General view looking along the line towards the platform, with station bungalows in the foreground.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Nov 1895
Extent:
1 item

86. Photo 1178(30)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1178(30)
Title:
Matara Railway, Nov. 1895. Kamburugamuwa Station. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
General view looking along the line towards the platform and other station buildings.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Nov 1895
Extent:
1 item

87. Photo 1221(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1221(1)
Title:
[Group of bungalows on the Bhore Ghat Incline.] Photographer: Clowser, George Lewis
Scope & Content:
View looking up a hillside towards a group of houses, probably accommodation for railway staff associated with the construction of the Bhor Ghat Railway Incline.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855-1859
Extent:
1 item

88. Photo 1221(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1221(2)
Title:
[Tunnel on the Bhor Ghat Railway Incline.] Photographer: Clowser, George Lewis
Scope & Content:
View looking along the line towards a short tunnel carved out of the steep hillside.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855-1859
Extent:
1 item

89. Photo 1221(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1221(3)
Title:
[View on the Bhor Ghat Railway.] Photographer: Clowser, George Lewis
Scope & Content:
View looking along the line towards a point where it is crossed by a stone bridge, with a settlement of thatched huts on the left.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855-1859
Extent:
1 item

90. Photo 1221(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1221(4)
Title:
[Village on the Bhor Ghat Railway Incline.] Photographer: Clowser, George Lewis
Scope & Content:
View looking down onto a settlement of thatched huts (railway workers' accommodation?), with part of the line and a tunnel visible in the extreme left background.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855-1859
Extent:
1 item