The Trans Siberian Railway

Martin Davies, a colleague at Monash University, discovered my love of railways, and lent me a couple of dozen slides of his trip on the Trans Siberian Railway in 1990. Here's what he said:

Note there are three trains that cross "Siberia". My trip was on the Trans-Mongolian (Moscow-Beijing). The other two are the Trans-Manchurian Moscow-Beijing via Manchuria and the Trans-Siberian proper (Moscow to Vladivostok). The trip was taken in 1990.

We had a Russian train, a Mongolian train and a Chinese train en route. One of them was steam.

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  • Date : 1990, catalogued 16 Jun 2001
  • Photographer : Martin Davies
  • Medium : Kodachrome, slide number Martin-01
  • Description : From the rear of the train


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  • Date : 1990, catalogued 16 Jun 2001
  • Photographer : Martin Davies
  • Medium : Kodachrome, slide number Martin-02
  • Description : From the rear of the train


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  • Date : 1990, catalogued 16 Jun 2001
  • Photographer : Martin Davies
  • Medium : Kodachrome, slide number Martin-03
  • Description : From the rear of the train


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  • Date : 1990, catalogued 23 Jun 2001
  • Photographer : Martin Davies
  • Medium : Kodachrome, slide number Martin-04
  • Description : from the rear of train, somewhere in Mongolia


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  • Date : 1990, catalogued 23 Jun 2001
  • Photographer : Martin Davies
  • Medium : Kodachrome, slide number Martin-05
  • Description : Cleaning the train


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  • Date : 1990, catalogued 23 Jun 2001
  • Photographer : Martin Davies
  • Medium : Kodachrome, slide number Martin-06
  • Description : Martin Davies (the photographer) with cabin passengers


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  • Date : 1990, catalogued 23 Jun 2001
  • Photographer : Martin Davies
  • Medium : Kodachrome, slide number Martin-07
  • Description : The loco of the TransSiberian Express.


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  • Date : 1990, catalogued 23 Jun 2001
  • Photographer : Martin Davies
  • Medium : Kodachrome, slide number Martin-08
  • Description : Side of train. Note the snow falling.


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  • Date : 1990, catalogued 14 Jul 2001
  • Photographer : Martin Davies
  • Medium : Kodachrome, slide number Martin-09
  • Description : Cleaning the TransSiberian with a broom (a daily ritual!)


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  • Date : 1990, catalogued 14 Jul 2001
  • Photographer : Martin Davies
  • Medium : Kodachrome, slide number Martin-10
  • Description : Station passengers in Mongolia


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  • Date : 1990, catalogued 14 Jul 2001
  • Photographer : Martin Davies
  • Medium : Kodachrome, slide number Martin-11
  • Description : A cabin full of happy passengers on the TransSiberian


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  • Date : 1990, catalogued 14 Jul 2001
  • Photographer : Martin Davies
  • Medium : Kodachrome, slide number Martin-13
  • Description : A view of an (unknown class) locomotive on the TransSiberian


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  • Date : 1990, catalogued 14 Jul 2001
  • Photographer : Martin Davies
  • Medium : Kodachrome, slide number Martin-15
  • Description : A guard on the TransSiberian


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  • Date : 1990, catalogued 23 Sep 2001
  • Photographer : Martin Davies
  • Medium : Kodachrome, slide number Martin-16
  • Description : The TransMongolian train at ?


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  • Date : 1990, catalogued 23 Sep 2001
  • Photographer : Martin Davies
  • Medium : Kodachrome, slide number Martin-18
  • Description : Changing of train bogies on Mongolia/Russian border I think (could have been Mongolia/China border). This was a very secretive business and I was shooed away with a rifle!


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  • Date : 1990, catalogued 23 Sep 2001
  • Photographer : Martin Davies
  • Medium : Kodachrome, slide number Martin-21
  • Description : Coal for the steam train


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  • Date : 1990, catalogued 23 Sep 2001
  • Photographer : Martin Davies
  • Medium : Kodachrome, slide number Martin-20
  • Description : Train worker


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  • Date : 1990, catalogued 23 Sep 2001
  • Photographer : Martin Davies
  • Medium : Kodachrome, slide number Martin-22
  • Description : Russian platform in the snow


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  • Date : 1990, catalogued 23 Sep 2001
  • Photographer : Martin Davies
  • Medium : Kodachrome, slide number Martin-23
  • Description : Repairs and maintenance en route


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  • Date : 1990, catalogued 23 Sep 2001
  • Photographer : Martin Davies
  • Medium : Kodachrome, slide number Martin-24
  • Description : Station scene in Russia


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