Gare de Lorient. (Réseau d'Orléans.) Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
View looking along the line towards the covered platforms of Lorient station, built 1861-62 on the Nantes-Châteaulin line. The main station building is in polychrome brick and wood.
Vue de Castelfranc (Lot). (Réseau d'Orléans.) Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
View looking down onto a section of the Cahors-Libos line, running alongside the Lot river, with a portion of the village of Castelfranc in the right foreground. The river is crossed by a suspension bridge at this point.
Viaduc sur le Drac. (Chemin de Fer de Lyon.) Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
View from the Drac riverbank looking towards the box girder viaduct, built across the stream on the Grenoble-Gap line, 1874-76. A smaller suspension bridge can be seen in the background.
Viaduc de Saint-Michel-les-Portes. (Chemin de Fer de Lyon.) Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
View of the masonry viaduct (built 1875-77) in the later stages of construction. In this photograph, some of the arches still retain wooden supporting bracing and the superstructure has not yet been completed
Tunnel de la Nerthe. (Chemin de Fer de Lyon.) Photographer: Baldus, Édouard Denis
Scope & Content:
View looking along the line towards the mouth of the tunnel, on the Avignon line near Marseilles, built 1844-47. This appears to be a heavily worked-on version of Baldus' photograph of the tunnel, taken around 1861 (see reproduction in Malcolm Daniel, 'The Photographs of Édouard Baldus' (Metropo...