A photograph of Hardinge Bridge up to Darjeeling.

Reference Number: 1380/1/58/005
Alternative Reference Number: 1380
Level of Description: Item
Title: A photograph of Hardinge Bridge up to Darjeeling.
Creator(s) & Administrative History: Colour Sergeant Frederick John Reginald Urch
Date: 19 July 1916
Extent: Extent: 1 photograph
Description: A photograph of a train crossing a large metal bridge. The photograph has been annotated by Colour Sergent Frederick John Reginald Urch with ‘Hardinge Bridge on up to Darjeeling. July 19th 1916’.
This steel railway bridge, over one mile long, is at Sara over the River Ganges [now Padma] in East Bengal [now Bangladesh]. It carried the Broad Gauge East Bengal Railway and opened in 1915 so it was only a year old when Colour Sergent Frederick John Reginald Urch crossed it in the train on his way to the hills.
Access Conditions: Physical access to the photograph album is restricted to the depositors family only. Public access to the photograph is available via the digitised version on Bath Record Office: Archives and Local Studies online catalogue.