A motor inspection car on the desert railway, October 1916

Photograph, World War One, Middle East (1914-1918), Libya, 1916.

Image caption states: 'Motor inspection car - on desert railway outside No 2 Block House - Libyan desert Oct 1916.'

Construction on the desert railway began in February 1916. It eventually spanned hundreds of miles across the Sinai peninsula, providing troops and supplies to the front line.

From a collection of photographs taken by Corporal Joseph Egerton, Shropshire Yeomanry in Sinai and Palestine.