© Ricketts Collection/National Science and Media Museum/Science Museum Group
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A photograph of Modane railway station in the French Alps, taken by Joguet et Fils in about 1870. In 1917 Modane was the site of the worst disaster in French railway history. A troop train ran out of control on a steep incline and over 800 soldiers were killed.Muzet Joguet ran a studio based in Lyon, France, during the 1860s. The studio specialised in topographic photographs and documentary studies of civil engineering works. Part of the Ricketts Collection, a collection of prints, albums, ephemera and objects assembled by Howard and Jane Ricketts. The Collection concentrates mainly on 19th century British photography, but is also rich in documentary, topographic and ethnographic photography from around the world. Album 8, May to August 1912.
'Station De Modane'
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