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Photo 1123/8(2)
- Record Id:
- 041-003177397
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003177238
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100026599950.0x000e83
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 1123/8(2)
- Title:
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Bagiari Station at the mouth of the Khyber Pass. Photographer: Holmes, Randolph Bezzant
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Landscape Photography
View looking along the line towards the station and the Khyber Pass beoynd, with a locomotive on the line in the foreground: 'The Khyber Railway starts from Jamrud 1,500 feet above sea level and immediately after leaving the station the grade steadily increases in severity as the train approaches the clearly marked mouth of the Pass. The first station at Bagiari lies in the jaws of the Pass close to Bagiari Fort. Ahead lie steep hillsides up which the railway has to find a way and on the skyline is visible Changai station built like a fort, which the train will only reach after traversing some three miles of tortuous line...'
[247x146mm]
Subjects = Cooper's Hill Collection; Khyber Railway; locomotives; railway stations; railways; transport
Location = Bagiari; Khyber Pass; North-West Frontier Province; Pakistan
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003177238
040-003177395
041-003177397 - Is part of:
- Photo 1123 : Cooper's Hill Collection: Photographs relating to Cooper's Hill and civil engineering works carried out in India by former…
Photo 1123/8 : Cooper's Hill Collection: 'The Khyber Railway.' Photographer(s): Holmes, Randolph Bezzant
Photo 1123/8(2) : Bagiari Station at the mouth of the Khyber Pass. Photographer: Holmes, Randolph Bezzant - Hierarchy:
- 032-003177238[0007]/040-003177395[0002]/041-003177397
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 1123
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1924
- End Date:
- 1926
- Date Range:
- c 1925
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known
- Names:
- Holmes, Randolph Bezzant, 1888-1973