Lengthmen changing track broad to narrow gauge

PEOP 8.024.tif

Title

Lengthmen changing track broad to narrow gauge

Subject

General Group
Track
MWork

Description

Falmouth Branch. Lengthen engaged on converting broad 7-foot gauge to standard 4 ft-8 1/2 in May of 1892. Pictured here between Perranwell and the Ponsanooth viaduct, they are thought to be (left to right) Messrs Symons, Dowrick, Lobb and Pearce.

Publisher

Morrab Library

Date

1892-05

Rights

Morrab Library

Format

Print

Identifier

PEOP 8.024

Coverage

Perranwell

Original Format

photo

Period Costume

N

Individual Names

Symons Dowrick Lobb Pearce

Geolocation