A Railway Engineer in Rhodesia - Charles Murray Ingledew's Photograph Albums (1901-1908)

This small publication results from the rediscovery of three long-forgotten photograph albums relating to railway construction in the early days of the Rhodesia Railway network, in what is now Zimbabwe. The photographs document the early career of Charles Murray Ingledew, an engineer who worked on various railway construction contracts for Pauling and Company in southern Africa in the early 1900s and the beginning of over thirty years of railway construction work in Africa. The photographs are presented with supporting notes and show railway construction on the Salisbury to Ayrshire line (1902), Gwelo to Selukwe and Bulawayo to Gwanda lines (1903) and construction of Deka Bridge (1908) on the main line to the Falls. Also including a set of 20 professional photographs of Cecil Rhodes funeral in April 1902 (by Samuel Turner) and 6 views of the Victoria Falls (by William Rausch), among others, and giving a unique insight into the early development of Southern Rhodesia. Featuring over 150 archive photographs, many previously unpublished. [140 pages, over 12,500 words]