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Berbera-Harrar Railway. 'Sd. SL. Craster, Maj. RE.' - War Office ledger. Plans of Station Sites.
Preliminary drawings for a proposed 250-mile railway from Berbera in northern British Somaliland to Harrar in eastern Abyssinia. Sheets cover Hargeisa and Harrar station sites, and include land up to 3 miles distant. Annotated 'Sheet 15' and 'Sheet 16' respectively, and portray hydrology, relief by contours, form lines and spot heights, roads and tracks, the proposed railway and its infrastructure, buildings and place names; significant buildings are also named.
The British LibraryCra'aster, Shafto Longfield, 1862-1943, railway engineer and army officer in India, Surveyor.
1903
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