Great Western broad gauge (84.25" - 2140mm) Rover class 4-2-2
Emperor and her crew pose for their
photograph - date & location
unknown.
Photo : RAT collection
The Forestal Land & Timber Company was registered in London
in March 1906 and
took over the assets of a local concern in the
Santa Fe province of
Argentina; including forests of quebracho, from
which tannin was extracted,
that were served by light railways of various
gauges. This picture dates from
June 1907 and shows a 750mm train on
the Colmena line headed by a recently
acquired Orenstein & Koppel
0-6-0T.
Photo : Chris Walker collection
The vast majority of images in the archive are not as old as those shown
above
and more than half are in colour.
Caminhos de Ferro de Mocambique Henschel built 4-4-2 number 813
heads a passenger
working bound for Nampula on 16/07/1969.
Photo : Basil Roberts
Byvalla-Langshyttans Jarnvag 891mm gauge 2-8-0 number 5 Thor shunts at Langshyttans
early in the morning of 25th May 1960
Photo Trevor Rowe
FC del Santa 2-6-0 number 10, a Henschel product of 1928, stands adjacent
to the Pacific
Ocean at the Peruvian port of Chimbote, some 300kms north
of Lima. This line closed
following severe damage by earthquake in 1970.
Photo taken in 1953 by David Ibbotson - Chris Walker Collection
One of a class of 49 2-8-0s, built by either Krupp, Henschel or Esslingen in
1938/9, heads
a train on the Trans Iranian Railway that may be somewhere
along the Dez gorge section
south of Tehran in 1941.
Photo : J D How - Chris Walker Collection
On the Bolan Pass in Pakistan, rebuilt class ARPW20 Co-Co diesel electric number 3803 descends
on to a level section off the 1 in 25 gradient above Mach on 14/2/1997.
Photo Richard Pelham
Class Ab 4-6-2 number 786, rebuilt from a Wab 4-6-4T in 1947, shunts at Kaiapoi on the South
Island Main Trunk line in New Zealand on 29/04/1967.
Photo Gerry Dixon
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You will see that some links on this page and throughout the site appear with green backgrounds.
These are links to a skeleton framework that we are setting up to cover those countries and areas within
where we have images to be added as & when resources are available to do so. At present clicking on one
may only provide a single image to view but means that the structure is in place to make it easy to
add more images when time permits.
In a couple of cases, China and Cuba, there were existing galleries which have now been reorganised
to take account of future developments.
Links on the Home page with blue backgrounds indicate that skeleton section(s) have been added to the
existing ones for that country.
Introduction
Welcome to our archive of photographs of railways from around the world - Global Working Railways.
Pages relative to our current museum activities on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway,can all be
found on our sister site
The Restoration & Archiving Trust.
Access to the photo galleries for those countries which
currently have pictures set up on this site can be gained by selecting the button for the country
required from the list below. All dates used on this site are in the
European format - DD/MM/YYYY.
Builders numbers when quoted relate back to the running number as
quoted in the works list and does not necessarily relate to the identity carried in later years as in many
cases builder plates or running numbers have been swapped between locomotives of the same type and some
locomotives have been subject to major rebuilds with little or none of the original remaining.
Countries
