Subject: Railway construction - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1178(23)
Title:: Matara Railway, Nov. 1895. Matara Station from approach road. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: General view of the exterior of the newly-completed station, with European figures posed in front.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Nov 1895
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1178(24)
Title:: Matara Railway, Nov. 1895. Matara Station yard looking east. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: General view looking along the line towards the station buildings and sidings.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Nov 1895
Extent:: 1 item

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1221
Title:: Clowser Collection: Photographs relating to the construction of the Bhor Ghat Railway . Photographer(s): Clowser, George Lewis
Scope & Content:: Collection of 29 albumen prints loosely inserted in corner slits in a cloth bound album measuring 305 x 250 mm. According to the donor, the photographs were taken by his great grandfather George Lewis Clowser, who was employed as an engineer on the Great Indian Peninsular Railway from 1853. He a...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1855-1859
Extent:: 29 items

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

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