bc Historical Photograph Albums

162 Pages·2004·11.67 MB·English

BRITISH COLUMBIA HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS
A List of Albums
in
The Library of the University of British Columbi a
Rare Books and Special Collections
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ALBUM I/1 C
1. Eleot+,io~Signolling Installation. Siemens Control System.
North and West Curve Junction, Didcot.
Brought into use July 16, 1908.
38 Lever Locking Frame .
Casing removed. External view.
(2 photos)
2. Didoot8.N°R ~
In course of erection and testing . (On wood blocks ; to facilitate wiring)
At the foot of 5—arm bracket signal .
One signal machine operating 5 arms, any one of which is selected by th e
coupling above the machine .
(2 photos)
3. Interior of the Cabin . Didcot.
Signal an Taylor operating the levers.
Signalman Hnap* writing up the train book .
(2 photos)
4. Didcot
The Cabin and Battery House
Top—Front View. Bottom—Back View
(2 photos}
5. 38 Lever Electic Locking Frame . Didcot (1 photo)
6. Didcot
Facing Pints at West Curve Junction . Lineman Bourne— Provender Store in
distance .
Temporary levers for working Main Line Signals. May 6, 1905.
Signalman French and Train Staff East End Cabin, Didcot . For working trains
over single line .
(] photos)
7. Lperating the Train Staff Instrument .
Didcot
Cardiff Express passing East End Cabin
Interior of West Curve Cabin .
Interior of East End Cabin . Signal0an French at the Levers .
(4 photos)
ALBUM #1 (con d
at Dbjout ) 8~
"La France." Engine No. 103, built in France ; after on week on the road.
July 9, 1908.
Gear of the above Locomotive. July 9° 1908.
(2 photos)
9 . Battery control Suttohboard, Didcot. 3 batteries, Carge : discarge at 128
volts, and 32 Volts in cyclical order. (for the Locking Frame se pp . 1 & 2.)
Pacl6s at work, Didcot . Dressing the road bed.
The Train Staff - at Dawlish, Devon . For safe operation of sinle line . The
Staff is a special form of Bar, with a large loop on one end : the fireman is
seen in the act of hanging it on the proSeuting hook, while the train i s
travelling at speed .
(3 photos)
10. In India
Railroad in India : Junction operation by the Siemaens Magneto System.
(3 photos of the Arkonam Junction, India)
11 . In India.
Arkonam, India .
(2 photos)
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12. Six views in the Rail r-BigneIling Shop. Messrs Siemens Bros . and C-
-'~s-Works, Woolwich.
R.S. Test Department, Woolwich Works .
Messrs Minstedt & Jones. Storekeeper & Foreman .
Testing Pint E. Signal Machines . The latter are tested by their raising a
weight. N.D.B.P. Test Engineer.
(3 photos)
13. Back of Birmingham Frame . Locking Boxes and Tappets, before the lockin g
was made.
Back of Birmingham Frame. Showing Locking Boxes & Tappets
224 Lever Locking Frame for Birmingham. Front View. Single arm disc signals
in the foreground. (At Woolwich LAE)
(3 photos)
ALBUM #1 (cont'd)
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14. Electric Sig-~~" allation° G.W.R. - Snow Hill, Birmingham Sieman
. Brought into use October 31, 1909 . s Check-Lock System
Aug. 8th, 1909
Coach off the Road . Wheel resting on one of ur point Detectors . August 14th,
1909.
(] photos)
15. Birmingham.
Birmingham North Signal Cabin. Looking towards Wolverhampton.
Interior of Cabin. Siemens 224 Lever Electric Locking-Frame . Block
Instruments on shelf .
Interir of Cabin-showing the 224 Lever Electric Locking Frame .
(3 photos)
16. Birmingham
Dec. 19, 1909.
8 Arm Signal Gantry. The steel case at the right is an Indicator, so that
that arm may be used for several roads . Dec. 19. 09.
(3 photos)
17. Mechanical Interlocking of the Levers, so that they can only be operate d
in the correct sequence.
(1 photo)
1G^ At Birmingham .
By the Cabbose. In hard weather. Cargeman ; Self ; & Foreman. December 18, 1809
Lay-out of Facing Pints (No. 154), and Double Disc. Nov. 19, 1909 .
(3 photos)
19 . At Birmingham
The Yard at night : the white dots on ground are disc signals, the streaks
are engine head-lights. Nov. 15, 1090.
(40 min expos.) The Power House.
Nov. 17. 09 . Motor-Generators, for charging the batteries . The Switcbsoard.Oct.1E
{3 photos)
ALBUM 41 (cont'd)
20. Interior of old Snow Hill Station, Birmingham.
Posing a 60-ton girder at Birmingham for the new Snow Hill Station. Feb.5.1910.
(2 pbotma
Roof of th)21° e old station- from outside May 22, 1911 .
The Old - on Saterday (sic) The New- on Monday
AApprriill 11991111
Great Charles Street Bridge.
{3 photos)
22. Signals and Route Indicators - Birmingham North .
Up scissors signals Ap. 16 . 1911 .
Birmingham, South Box, Levers .
(5 photos)
23. Birminham North Signal Cabin 224 levers. Brought into use November 1909.
224 Lever Electric Locking Frame . The pitch of the Levers is 2 inches,
so 3 levers aan be moved by one hand . The Block Instuments are on the
shelf & a large framed diagram of the Junction is seen above them.
(1 photo)
24. Eirmingham North Cabin
The Signal Cabin mounted on steel columns, owing to restriction of space .
(2 photos)
25. Cable Ship "Faraday," alongside Siemens Works, Woolwich - on the Thames .
Loading submarine cable from the plant .
(3 photos composed as one)
26" Carmarthen. The signal cabin near the River opwrated pints & signals on
the other side of river by means of a submerged cable .
Junction to Carmarthen. Before and after opening of the n,m bridge .
Point machine and detector° Bridge open. S.S. ^Merthyrx passing through.
(4 photos)
27. Carmarthen
The bridge from 4 arm signal
The operating mechanism.
The bridge from the cabin .
The bridge open : form Cabin.
( (4 photos)
28. The Schertzer Rolling Bridge, Carmarthen .
This bridge replaced one built by Brunel . Isambard Brunel was Chie f
Engineer to the Great Western Railway Company about 1870.
(1 photo)
29. The Bridge Open
(1 photo)
30. Charleville, France.
Locking frame, Des-cubes System, Front .
Back. Locking frame - Descubes System.
Mechanical locking.
(3 photos)
31. Charleville, France.
Vew of Cabin - Poste III
Towards Givet Charleville Station .
Views from the Cabin
(3 photos)
32. Charleville, France. 1912-13 .
Gare de Mezieres - Charleville .
Group in the Cabin
O°D°B. Phillips operating the signal s
(3 photos)
33. Charleville, France.
Electric Traverser, for moving a coach from one track to any other .
Tu views of the Cabin, Poste III .
(3 photos)
34~ Group at Charleville.
Signal de Direction, at Nouvion-sur-Meuse .
Poste H . Lumes Triage.
Gravity Shunting.
(4 photos)
ALBUM #1 (cont4d)
35. Two Battery Signal Machines on one post ; Block Automatique, Lumes .
2 machines of as— des Signaux.
2 macnines of Siemens .
Automatic signals operated by battery. Lumes Triage, Ardennes, France.
This triage is the largest in Europe, trains being marshalled for all
points in France, Belgium, Germany and other Countries.
(2 photos)
36. Locking Frame - Descubes System. Nancy. Poste 4. March 3, 1913
After a got day at Vesoul. Buffet on the station platform.
Disque at Vesoul. (N.D°B°P ° in whitc straw hat.)
(3 photos)
37. Chartres, Eure et Loire.
Disque July 16, 1913
Treadle for operating Disque. April 21, 1913.
(2 photos)
33. Shunting - Chartres Deal 14, 1912.
Disque a Valmy. (Disque Autom)
Tunnel nearly two miles long, constructed by the English seventy years ago.
Bonnieres. Qugust 2, 1013.
Cabin built of stone taken from the tunnel, at the same period as the tunnel
ael~ ~ Bonniereo August 2, 1913.
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39. Pont Riquet, La Villette - Paris. July 21, 1913.
Train backing up from tunnel, La Vilette . July 21, 1913
Loco of the Midid: at Horoaux° France. July. 13. 1907 .
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Estacion del Norte, San Sebuotion, Spain . T he railway gauge in Spain is not
the same as in France . July 13. 1907.
(4 photos )
40. R.M.S. Briton in Dock, Southampton .
(1 photo)
41. R.M.S. Briton in Dock. Cape Town, outh Africa. In the background Table
Mountain {4000 ft.), with the "Tablecloth." N.D.B. Phillips at the masthead.
(1 photo)
ALBUM #1 (cont'd)
42. Thrust Block. Port Engone
The Tunnel Shaft i Port Engine. 18" Diao°
Engine Room : R .M.S. Briton. (Refigerating Machine C O at left) by Hall ,
2
of Dartford.
(3 photos)
43. R .M.S .Nozman in Dry Dock, Cape Town. Damaged Propellers, after running o n
the rocks at St. Johns. Note Rudder hard over, in order that the caisson
could close.
(1 photo)
44. Engine room, R.M.B . Briton. Starting Platform. Looking forward. The columns
were hollow, used for storing Engine Oil.
(1 photo)
45. Looking aft.
(1 photo)
46. R .M.S. Briton. photographs taken while "on the coast" (lying at anchor at
a S.A. Port)
In the Stoke hold.
N.D.B.P. on left, holding an arc lamp
N.D.B.P. is the figure on right .
{3 photos }
47. Link Gear: Spindle 5" diam.
Taking Indicator Diagrams.
{2 photos)
48. Submm_:ine Cable, Thou. Is .
Engine Room. Thou. Is.
(2 photoc)
49.Power Station, Abbeville . B.E.F. No° 356 Electrical a Mechanical Company . 1916.
4 Lancashire Dynamos & Tangye Oil Engines 17.6 ku~ each 40 B.H.P. each.
Lieut N.D.B.P. on right of sappers. Staff Serjeant (sic) in centre.
(1 photo)
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50. Power Station, Abbeville . N o°356 E. & M. Co. B.E.F. 1916
(1 photo)
51. Automatic Switchboards of the Lister—Bruston Lighting System. Lister' s
Works, DursleV, Glos. Eng. 1921.
[1 photo)
52. Kettle Valley Railway, British Columbia .
(3 photos)
53. In the Kettle Valley. B.C.
(3 photos)
54. Trestle Bridges on the Kettle Valley Railway . Brit.h Columbia.
(4 photos)
55. One of the last trains to pass over the level crossing, at Hastings &
Carrall Streets. Vancouver. The three at corner of sidewalk are Catherine ,
Barbara a David Phillips. (The negative of this is in the Archives at the
City Hall) June 1932 .
(1 photo)
56~ Engine No. 2300, of the 2300 Class : C .R.R. Attached to Prince of W . train.
(1 photo)
57. Bahnhof Anhalt, von dem Electrischen Bahn. Berlin, May 30. 1902.
Locomotive 374. First train jnto Vancouver . May 23 . 1887"
Express Locomotive of the Deutscher Stadt Bahn, at Wilteburge Station .
June 2, 1902.
(4 photos)
53. Bristol:"Great Western a Bristol and Exeter" Station .
Before 1875. With the B. & E. General Offices .
"Broad Gauge" Track at bottom right° The tracks with three rails are to
accommodate both "Broad Gauge" and "Narrow Gauge» trains . The Broad
Gouge = 7ft. C the Narrow Gauge. = 4ft. 8;'ain., later called "Standard
Gauge" .
(1 photo)
5S ° Bristol Old Goods Shed 1842.
(1 photo)
ALBUM 111 (cont'd)
GO. Bristol Station : with "Broad Gauge" Tracks 1842
(1 photo)
61. The Last Train over the Hastings-Carrall Level Crossing. June 1932.
Catherine ; Barbara; & David Phillips at Corner .
Photograph by N.D.Blagdon Phillips .
(1 photo)