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Survey of Private Collections. West Highland Railway

551 262/163

Description Survey of Private Collections. West Highland Railway

Date 1898 to 1901

Collection Survey of Private Collections

Catalogue Number 551 262/163

Category All Other

Scope and Content Part of a collection of 72 photographs taken showing the work by Robert McAlpine & Sons on the construction of the West Highland Railway's Mallaig branch between 1898 and 1901.

Archive History Copy images provided by the National Railway Museum, York.

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/1516933

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Collection Level (551 262) Survey of Private Collections

> Group Level (551 262/163) Survey of Private Collections. West Highland Railway

Preview Category Catalogue Number Title Date Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images SC 653479 West Highland Railway. Black and white photograph at unknown location, possibly Arisaig. c. 1899 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images SC 653480 West Highland Railway. Black and white photograph, possibly showing the pier built to service the project at Locheilhead. c. 1899 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images SC 653482 West Highland Railway. Black and white photograph showing a rock crusher at an unidentified location. c. 1899 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images SC 653483 West Highland Railway. Black and white photograph showing Mallaig Pier under construction. c. 1899 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images SC 653484 West Highland Railway. Black and white photograph showing Borrodale Viaduct at completion c. 1899 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images SC 653485 West Highland Railway. Black and white photograph showing the Banavie railway swing bridge over the Caledonian Canal. c. 1899 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images SC 653486 West Highland Railway. Black and white photograph of an elevated view of newly-laid portion of the railway, location unidentified. c. 1899 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images SC 653487 West Highland Railway. Black and white photograph showing an unidentified railway bridge. c. 1899 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images SC 653398 West Highland Railway. Black and white photograph showing major works in progress at unidentified location. These include long brick wall, and square brick piers or foundations in the foreground. c. 1899 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images SC 653403 West Highland Railway. Black and white photograph showing steam-powered excavator working at unidentified site. c. 1899 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images SC 653404 West Highland Railway. Black and white photograph showing laying of railway track progressing along unidentified valley. c. 1899 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images SC 653406 West Highland Railway. Black and white photograph showing portion of unidentified coastline, probably adjacent to railway. c. 1899 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images SC 653408 West Highland Railway. Black and white photograph showing newly blasted rock cutting (exact location unidentified). c. 1899 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images SC 653409 West Highland Railway. Black and white photograph showing Arnabol Glen viaduct nearing completion. c. 1900 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images SC 653410 West Highland Railway. Black and white photograph showing in detail a ceremonial spade used to cut the first sod of the Mallaig Extension project on 21 January 1897 c. 1897 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images SC 653413 West Highland Railway. Black and white photograph showing the Lochailort Inn c. 1899 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images SC 653414 West Highland Railway. Black and white photograph showing the Polnish Field Hospital c. 1899 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images SC 653415 West Highland Railway. Black and white photograph showing the railway passing the Lochailort Inn. c. 1899 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images SC 653416 West Highland Railway. Black and white photograph showing a puffer moored near to a jetty, possibly that built to serve the construction of the railway at Locheilhead. c. 1899 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images SC 653417 West Highland Railway. Black and white photograph showing the results of early blasting work on a rock cutting (exact location unknown). c. 1899 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images SC 653418 West Highland Railway. Black and white photograph showing a view looking down to the loch side, with a puffer moored near to some wooden huts. This may possibly be the depot built at Locheilhead. c. 1899 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images SC 653419 West Highland Railway. Black and white photograph showing the site of the camp near to the Lochailort Inn (visible in the background). c. 1899 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images SC 653420 West Highland Railway. Black and white photograph showing the Caledonian Canal locks and railway swing bridge at Banavie. c. 1899 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images SC 653422 West Highland Railway. Black and white photograph possibly showing Mallaig, with hotel and other buildings under construction. c. 1899 Item Level

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