The British Pavilion at the Antwerp Exhibition.

Many visitors to Europe this year have made a special point to include the Belgian seaport of Antwerp in their itinerary. At Antwerp there is being held a great International Maritime and Colonial Exhibition, somewhat on the lines of the Wembley Exhibition in London. For the railwayman, the Antwerp Exhibition is full of interest, for transport in all its

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Track relaying with steel sleepers on the Great Western Railway, near Reading, England.

many branches is a feature very fully covered in the exhibits of the different countries represented. In the British section there are most attractive and instructive exhibits staged by the L. and N.E., L.M. and S., and Southern Railways, and by other travel agencies, such as the Cunard and White Star Lines, the Port of London Authority, and the shipping authorities at Liverpool, Hull and Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Twenty countries in all are taking part in the Antwerp Exhibition, and the British Pavilion dominates the whole of the Exhibition grounds. In the centre court there is an electric working model showing British shipping routes throughout the world, with real water for oceans. This map, with the geographical features in relief, is about half the size of a lawn tennis court, and took six months to construct, at a cost of about £2,000. There is a procession of scale model ships from the Roman galley to the modern battleship, and on the aerial side there are displayed scale model air-planes from the earliest times to the present date, each model being shown as in flight. Apart from the interest afforded by the Exhibition itself, Antwerp is one of the finest of Belgian cities, and its transportation services by rail, road and sea are second to none in Europe.

“A glorious harvest fill'd my eager sight …” —Robert Bloomfield.
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The golden harvest fields of Canterbury, that delight train travellers in the South Island of New Zealand.