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English: Western Oases Railway - A railway engine

Images 172, 173 and 174 are definitely from the Western Oases Railway, a narrow gauge line in the Western Desert that was captured and then garrisoned by dismounted yeomanry but much further South than Baharia. Image 59 and 89 are also probably from that railway

National Army Museum, London.

NAM Accession Number, NAM. 2002-05-1-174
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Source A railway engine on the desert railway, 1917
Author Collection of photographs taken by Corporal Joseph Egerton, Shropshire Yeomanry in Sinai and Palestine

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