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Railway staff laying track in South Africa, WW1

South African railway staff laying track across scrub land to join up with the Windhoek line (now in Namibia, but then in German South West Africa) to Kaalfontein and Upington (South Africa), during the First World War. They laid over five miles of track in one day

Picture No
10528500
Media ID
48019272
Size
3700px x 4884px (2.3MB)
Credit
(c)Imperial War Museum/Robert Hunt Library/Mary Evans
Source
Robert Hunt Library
Date
June 1915

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