Mss Eur F252/17

Diary includes the following:

• Folio 1 verso: photograph of railway sleepers arriving at Barmdeo
• Folio 1 verso: photograph of stacks of railway sleepers at Barmdeo Station
• Folio 2 recto: photograph entitled ‘Coming round the Upper Sirkon Corner’
• Folio 12 verso: photograph of a view up Sarda Valley from Upper Sirkon Corner
• Folio 12 verso: photograph of a view across the Sarda into Nepal from Banghat
• Folio 14 verso: photograph showing a view looking down the Sarda from Banghat onto Punagiri
• Folio 14 verso: photograph of S I Rizvi standing in front of a tree (E.A.C. Forests)
• Folio 15 verso: photograph entitled ‘Kaldhunga F.R.H.’ showing a building at the foot of a steep wooded hill
• Folio 17 verso: photograph of the Bhawani Gadh Bridge
• Folio 17 verso: photograph of a porcupine being held over the head of a turbaned figure (Naghan)
• Folio 19 verso: 4 photographs of ‘wash-out on M-G Ry’ showing expanses of water
• Folio 21 verso: photograph of the elephant ‘Kathleen’ bathing at Dhauli
• Folio 22 verso: photograph of R&K Line submerged along wash-out between Tanakpur and Barmdeo
• Folio 22 verso: photograph of lightning struck twisted tree trunk (Ūsna in Naghan)
• Folio 24 verso: photograph entitled ‘New Jaulasal F.R.H.’ showing a building with a long veranda
• Folio 26 verso: photograph of ‘the landslip just above Sirkon on tramline’
• Folio 26 verso: photograph of camp at Kichail (“Dadu Corner”)
• Folio 28 verso: photograph of a hyena lying down in short grassland
• Folio 28 verso: photograph of a hyena’s paw
• Folio 30 verso: 2 photographs of Katha (Catechu) boiling in Naghan
• Folio 32 verso: photograph of Katha boiling
• Folio 32 verso: photograph of chipping up the khair logs (Chayi’s method)
• Folio 34 verso: photograph of the Sarda Boom at Barmdeo
• Folio 34 verso: photograph with the description ‘looking along the Boom to anchorage on Nepal side’
• Folio 36 verso: photograph with the description ‘Mahseer from the R. Sarda’ showing two Indian figures holding a pole between them with a large fish suspended from it
• Folio 36 verso: photograph showing two Indian figures in front of a building and holding a pole between them with a large fish suspended from it
• Folio 38 verso: photograph of the Sarda River Boom across from the anchorage
• Folio 38 verso: photograph of ‘The Staff’ (9 figures) standing on the Boom
• Folio 40 verso: photograph of the species Dysoxylum Binectariferum Pilapani
• Folio 42 verso: photograph of Sanai’s at Barmdeo Boom
• Folio 42 verso: photograph of the elephant ‘Kathleen’ being bathed at Barmdeo
• Folio 44 verso: photograph of the plant species Eria Flava (Dhanaur) growing on a tree branch
• Folio 46 verso: photograph of the plant species Cleistostoma growing on a tree branch (Danda: 28^th April 1923)
• Folio 48 verso: photograph of ‘Camp at Kathol’ (6th-11^th May 1923)
• Folio 48 verso: photograph of the species of orchid Vanda Cristata
• Folio 50 verso: photograph of a dug-out crossing Sarda at Barmdeo
• Folio 52 verso: photograph of the compound of Senapani (F.R.H.)
• Folio 52 verso: photograph of a view north east from Senapani (F.R.H.)
• Folio 54 verso: photograph of dog named ‘Dandy II’
• Folio 54 verso: photograph of a porcupine (Naghan)
• Folio 56 verso: photograph of the elephants ‘Kathleen’ and ‘Gulab-Kali’ in The Sarda
• Folio 56 verso: photograph of the elephant ‘Kathleen’
• Folio 58 verso: 2 photographs of the elephant ‘Kathleen’ in The Sarda
• Folio 60 verso: 2 photographs of Chir sleepers at Barmdeo Boom
• Folio 62 verso: photograph of Green Haldu Trestle of Sarda Cable Way (Banghat)
• Folio 62 verso: photograph of Sarda Alluvium over Hahan Sandstone (Banghat)
• Folio 64 verso: photograph of Chir sleepers floating down Sarda (Banghat)
• Folio 64 verso: photograph of snow damage in Chir at Maharpali
• Folio 66 verso: photograph of two orchids Habenaria Suzanne and Habenaria Triflora (Maharplai C.A. Division)
• Folio 66 verso: photograph of snow damage in young Chir Poles
• Folio 68 verso: photograph of a building (unnamed) with pillars and corrugated roof (Maharpali F.R.H.)
• Folio 68 verso: photograph of telescopic floating of Chir sleepers (31^st August 1923)
• Folio 70 verso: 2 photographs of Barmdeo Station
• Folio 72 verso: photograph of camp at Barmdeo
• Folio 72 verso: photograph with the description ‘buried rail stacks in Bhatni Qadh Slip’
• Folio 74 verso: photograph of attempted excavation of Bhatnigadh landslide
• Folio 74 verso: photograph of ‘subsequent diversion’ and showing part of the ‘old track’
• Folio 77 verso: photograph of ‘The Track’ viewed from the top of the cliff looking downstream across the Bhatnigad
• Folio 77 verso: photograph of the cliff between Bhatnigad and Babilgad (showing a group of people ‘commencing operations’)
• Folio 79 verso: photograph of ‘The Track’ viewed from the top of the cliff looking upstream over the Babilgad Delta (15^th May 1924)
• Folio 79 verso: Photograph of Khans working on a section
• Folio 81 verso: photograph of ‘some big boulders being blasted’ (Babilgad crossing)
• Folio 81 verso: photograph of Khan Mate and workman
• Folio 83 verso: 2 photographs showing Harry Champion and a lady with the initial ‘D’ and the dog ‘Dandy’ outside of a tent at Barmdeo
• Folio 85 verso: photograph of a view looking downstream from Tuligad
• Folio 85 verso: photograph entitled ‘building the Babilgad crossing’
• Folio 87 verso: photograph entitled ‘Down the Babilgad “Pitching”’
• Folio 87 verso: photograph showing the ‘clearing of a big block below Kichail camp’
• Folio 89 recto: photograph of a 300 C.F.T. block from above (Tuligad)
• Folio 89 recto: photograph showing ‘running down on to the Babilgadh crossing’
• Folio 90 verso: 2 photographs showing the construction of Tuligad Bridge (taken on the 3^rd and 13^th November 1923)
• Folio 92 verso: photograph of Khans drilling for blasts for Tuligad Bridge masonry
• Folio 92 verso: photograph of Tuligad Bridge (4^th December 1923)
• Folio 94 recto: photograph of Tuligad Bridge as completed December 15^th (1923)
• Folio 94 recto: photograph of Khans drilling blasts
• Folio 94 verso: photograph of Tuligad Bridge from The Gad
• Folio 94 verso: photograph of trolleys crossing Tuligad Bridge
• Folio 96 verso: photograph of Tuligad Bridge from the river
• Folio 96 verso: photograph showing a view downstream across Ladigad Bridge
• Folio 98 verso: photograph showing a view upstream across the Tuligad Corner
• Folio 98 verso: photograph with the description ‘run down to Ladigad Corner’
• Folio 100 verso: photograph of a view up Ladigad from The Bridge
• Folio 100 verso: photograph of Ladigad Bridge after an accident with a runaway trolley
• Folio 102 verso: photograph showing a view from Ladigad Bridge
• Folio 102 verso: photograph of Ladigad Bridge looking downstream
• Folio 104 verso: photograph entitled ‘2^nd Time’ showing Ladigad Bridge (identical to photograph on verso folio 100 of ‘Ladigad Bridge after an accident with a runaway trolley’)
• Folio 104 verso: photograph of a view upstream from upper Sirkon Corner showing a wide river
• Folio 106 verso: photograph of a deep cutting near Punagiri Bridge
• Folio 106 verso: photograph of Punagiri Girder Bridge
• Folio 108 verso: photograph entitled ‘Between the Bridges’
• Folio 108 verso: photograph entitled ‘Running Down on to Punagiri Bridge’
• Folio 110 verso: photograph of buffaloes waiting at Lower Sirkon Corner
• Folio 110 verso: photograph entitled ‘Negotiating the Reverse Gradient to Lower Sirkon Corner’
• Folio 112 verso: photograph of The Lower Sirkon Cliff
• Folio 112 verso: photograph of Upper Sirkon Corner
• Folio 114 verso: photograph of ‘raising the track at The “Tanki”’
• Folio 114 verso: photograph of Upper Sirkon Corner
• Folio 116 verso: photograph of Upper Sirkon Cliff with the caption ‘A Buffalo Fell Over There’
• Folio 116 verso: photograph of ‘The Reverse out of the Bhawani Gad’
• Folio 118 verso: photograph of the Bhawani Gad rock-slip
• Folio 118 verso: photograph of ‘pulling trolleys up Bhawanigad Reverse’
• Folio 120 verso: photograph of Bhawani Gadh Bridge
• Folio 120 verso: photograph of The Gauji Gad Reverse
• Folio 122 verso: photograph of showing a stage in the construction of the Barchia-Gad Bridge
• Folio 122 verso: photograph showing a trolley ‘Crossing the Barchia Gad Bridge’
• Folio 127 recto: photograph of Jariakhal-Banghat Junction
• Folio 127 recto: photograph of Upper Banghat Terminus
• Folio 127 verso: two photographs of the ‘Terminus’ at Barmdeo (25^th March 1924)