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Making a light railway
Making a light railway
A working party of British soldiers constructing a narrow gauge railway. In theory, light railways such as these were quickly built in order to keep up with the advance so as to supply the troops with everything they would need. After the advance had been secured, a full-size railway would then be built. Ironically, however, few real advances were made on the Western Front until the latter stages …
Contributors
- John Warwick Brooke
Subject
- Construction (assembling)
- Railroad tracks
- Soldiers
Type of item
- Monograph
- Monograph
- Photograph
Contributors
- John Warwick Brooke
Subject
- Construction (assembling)
- Railroad tracks
- Soldiers
Type of item
- Monograph
- Monograph
- Photograph
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Rights
- Available under Creative Commons license; Attribution, Non-commercial, ShareAlike
Issue date
- 2005
- 1914 - 1920
- 1914/1920
- 2005
Identifier
- 74548102
Extent
- 1 online resource
Is part of
- http://data.theeuropeanlibrary.org/Collection/a1219
Year
- 2005
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-04-06T13:22:54.894Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2016-05-31T08:46:16.081Z