Loading timber onto a railway wagon, Alishan Forest Railway, Taiwan

Jhangnaoliao station on the Alishan Forest Railway, Taiwan

Inn at the foot of Alishan, Alishan Forest Railway, Taiwan

Alishan Sacred Tree (阿里山神木) beside Alishan Forest Railway, Taiwan

Shay locomotive and lumber train, Alishan Forest Railway, Taiwan

Kaohsiung train station, Taiwan

Katharine Carl's portrait of the Empress Dowager Cixi leaving Beijing on a train

Hatamen gate being repaired, Beijing

Street food seller on a railway station platform, with sign for the Hotel de la Paix, Tianjin

Italian troops arrive at train station, Tientsin

Allied soldiers, Tientsin Railway Station, Tianjin

Railway cut through city wall, Peking, 1900

Ruins of the locomotive shed at Fengtai, Peking and damaged locomotives

Ruined locomotive shed and damaged locomotives, Fengtai, Peking

'Grasshopper', an improvised locomotive engine, and wagon

Sidings at Peking (Temple of Heaven) Station, Beijing, 1900

Navvies working by Peking (Temple of Heaven) Station, Peking, 1900

Mounted foreign troops beside the Imperial light railway track, Beihai, Peking

Chinese navvies with wagons loaded with fish-plates

General Mei's military band and soldiers sitting beside railway tracks