Eritrea

The collection of firewood, particularly for cooking, is an important occupation in Eritrea. These donkeys their handlers had just passed through the tunnel, using the trackbed of the Eritrea Railway as a convenient route back from the foraging grounds. This is just one of the hazards for railway operations in this country.

The Eritrean Railway reached the town of Keren in 1922 but was closed by 1975. Whilst the station is now used as a market and bus station there are still a number of railway relics surviving. This water tank provides advertising for a local business.

The Italian colonial influence is obvious in this view of the interior of the central post office in Asmara, Eritrea. It was completed in 1916.

Abrascico station on the trackbed of the disused railway between Asmara and Keren on the Eritrea Railway. The line here was abandoned in the 1970s during the war of independence.

Corrugated iron architecture at Nefasit, Eritrea.

A Mallet is working hard as it leaves the third tunnel above Embatkala on the Eritrea Railway.