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THE ABERFELDY BRANCH OF THE HIGHLAND RAILWAY: STRATH TAY, 1865. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
The Aberfeldy Branch of the Highland Railway: Strath Tay, [Scottish Highlands], 1865. 'A short branch of the Inverness and Perth Junction Railway has lately been constructed to Aberfeldy, in the upper valley of the Tay...Though its length is less than nine miles, its construction has been a task of some difficulty, and does much credit to the engineers, Messrs. Joseph Mitchell and M. Paterson, and to Messrs. Macdonald and Grieve, the contractors; the earthworks extending to about half a million cubic yards of cutting, and an equal amount of embankment; while the bridges, including the viaduct across the Tummel and the Tay, are no less than forty-five in number...This Aberfeldy branch crosses first the Tummel and then the Tay..., its course lying on the south side of the Tay...The most important engineering works on the line are the viaducts crossing the Rivers Tummel and Tay...The Tay viaduct consists of two openings of 137 ft. span each, and two side girders of 41 ft. 6 in. span, making the clear waterway of the bridge 357 ft. The bridge is supported also on six cylinders, 8 ft. diameter, which are sunk, on the average, 22 ft. 4 in. into the bed of the river, and the centre piers to the top of the ornamental towers are 67 ft. high'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865. The Aberfeldy Branch of the Highland Railway: Strath Tay, 1865. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
(RM) 609544803
THE ABERFELDY BRANCH OF THE HIGHLAND RAILWAY: THE TUMMEL VIADUCT AT LOGIERAIT, 1865. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
The Aberfeldy Branch of the Highland Railway: the Tummel Viaduct at Logierait, [Scottish Highlands], 1865. 'A short branch of the Inverness and Perth Junction Railway has lately been constructed to Aberfeldy, in the upper valley of the Tay...Though its length is less than nine miles, its construction has been a task of some difficulty, and does much credit to the engineers, Messrs. Joseph Mitchell and M. Paterson, and to Messrs. Macdonald and Grieve, the contractors; the earthworks extending to about half a million cubic yards of cutting, and an equal amount of embankment; while the bridges, including the viaduct across the Tummel and the Tay, are no less than forty-five in number...This Aberfeldy branch crosses first the Tummel and then the Tay within about half a mile of the village of Logierait...The Tummel viaduct consists of two main openings 122ft. span each, and two side girders of 35 ft. span each, making the entire clear waterway 314 ft. The girders are elevated 16 ft. above the bed of the river, and are supported by six cast-iron cylinders, 8 ft. diameter. These cylinders were sunk into the bed of the river 22 ft. on the average, by the aid of divers...The total height of the cylinders, with the ornamental towers, is about 55 ft.'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865. The Aberfeldy Branch of the Highland Railway: the Tummel Viaduct at Logierait, 1865. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
(RM) 609542883
THE ROYAL VISIT TO CAMBRIDGE: PROCESSION ON THE CAM IN HONOUR OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS..., 1864. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
The Royal Visit to Cambridge: the boat procession on the Cam in honour of the Prince and Princess of Wales, 1864. 'In the grounds of St. John's College...was one of the most brilliant scenes...namely, the marshalling of the University boats in honour of the Royal visitors...the whole scene looking exceedingly animated under the afternoon sun, and enlivened by the gay flags and flowers with which the fairy flotilla was decorated...Every other boat bore its distinguishing flag, and all displayed the national standard of Denmark. A man on Clare Bridge waved a flag, and each boat as it passed under "put on a spurt," which was kept up vigorously until they reached a part of the river where there was space enough for a turn. The Prince and Princess of Wales...watched this animated pageant from the banks, and when the boats returned and formed a sort of bridge across the river, the men tossing their oars and cheering lustily, their Royal Highnesses bowed repeatedly, evidently delighted...The Prince and the distinguished Doctors of Law who accompanied him wore their scarlet robes. Three cheers for the Queen, and three more for the Prince and Princess of Wales, followed, and then the boats all paddled away in the order in which they had advanced'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864. The Royal Visit to Cambridge: procession on the Cam in honour of the Prince and Princess..., 1864. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
(RM) 609542308
FIGHT AT WAIARI, ON THE MANGAPIKO RIVER, NEW ZEALAND, ON THE 11TH OF FEBRUARY, 1864. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
Fight at Waiari, on the Mangapiko River, New Zealand, on the 11th of February, 1864. 'It seems that...some of our soldiers went into the river to bathe, and were suddenly fired upon by the Maoris, who lay in ambush on the opposite bank. The covering party...immediately replied to the enemy's fire, while the bathers got out and dressed themselves as quickly as they could. The Maoris now slowly retired towards the old fortifications on the neck of the peninsula...Captain Fisher discovered a bridge over the river...[and crossing it,] came full upon the retiring ambuscade party of the enemy...[who] had no way of escape; some hid themselves in the scrub...others attempted to swim the river, but were shot down...The enemy were chiefly of the Ngatimaniapoto tribe...the most awful yells and Maori imprecations were heard, mingled with discharges of muskets and the quick popping of revolvers. In ten minutes, the Rangers appeared on the parapet carrying up five Maori bodies, and two Maoris wounded...Night fell; the wounded and dead, six of the former and five of the latter, were carried into camp, with ten Maori corpses and three wounded; six more Maori bodies were left on the path and seven in the river...forty eight were killed or mortally wounded'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864. Fight at Waiari, on the Mangapiko River, New Zealand, on the 11th of February, 1864. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
(RM) 609542186
LONDON MAIN-DRAINAGE WORKS: AQUEDUCT AT ABBEY MILLS, STRATFORD, 1864. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
London Main-Drainage Works: Aqueduct at Abbey Mills, Stratford, 1864. 'The Illustration shows the manner in which the numerous waterways and branches of the Lea River are crossed by the aqueducts of the main drainage-works. These are generally wrought-iron tubes and girders, supported at each end by piers and abutments of solid masonry. The example shown in the Illustration is that which crosses the canal immediately below Abbey Mills, at West Ham. When the whole of the main-drainage scheme is carried out, which it will be when the Thames embankment from Westminster to Blackfriars Bridge is completed and the new street thence to the Mansion House made, there will be erected at West Ham the largest pumping establishment of the entire work. It will require engine-power to the extent of 1140 horses to give the accumulated drainage of the metropolitan low-level district on the north side of London its final lift into the great outfall sewer, through which it will flow by gravitation into the river at Barking Creek. The engine-power proposed to be erected at this point will consist of eight double-acting condensing engines, with cylinders 54 in. in diameter, with a stroke of 9 ft., and working pumps, two to each engine, of 46½ in. diameter'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864. London Main-Drainage Works: Aqueduct at Abbey Mills, Stratford, 1864. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
(RM) 609539842
TEMPORARY BRIDGE OVER THE THAMES AT BLACKFRIARS, 1864. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
Temporary bridge over the Thames at Blackfriars, [London], 1864. 'Old Blackfriars Bridge, which has been for some time in a very crazy condition, must speedily be rebuilt; and, as the closing of such an important thoroughfare would be attended with most serious inconvenience..., the Corporation of the city of London very properly determined upon having a temporary structure erected for the purpose...Its position is between the new bridge in process of being made for the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company, situated but a few yards east of it, and the old Blackfriars Bridge...What with the great wooden props required to sustain the old tumble-down bridge, and the numerous piles, pieces of scaffolding, steam-engines, iron columns, stone piers, and other erections and appliances required for the works in question, the river steamers and the heavily laden barges which navigate thus high have a difficult time of it...To an inexperienced eye the posts, and cross-beams, and piles on every hand must appear an almost impenetrable maze...The temporary bridge... consists principally of a timber viaduct... It is calculated that the temporary bridge at Blackfriars may not be exchanged for the new permanent one for, perhaps, three years to come'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864. Temporary bridge over the Thames at Blackfriars, 1864. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
(RM) 609486535
TARRADALE VIADUCT, ON THE MELBOURNE AND SANDHURST RAILWAY, AUSTRALIA, 1864. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
Tarradale [sic] Viaduct, on the Melbourne and Sandhurst Railway, Australia, 1864. Engraving from a photograph by Morris and Co., of Elizabeth-street, Melbourne. '... the great northern line from Melbourne to Sandhurst, by way of Castlemaine...is eventually to be carried on to the Murrumbidgee River, and to provide for safe and cheap conveyance between Victoria and New South Wales. The town of Castlemaine, at the foot of Mount Alexander, is already a place of great commercial importance. Its site is well chosen for access to the northern and western gold-fields, as well as to the fertile agricultural plains of the Loddon and the Avoca, which lie behind it. Sandhurst, at the entrance of the Bendigo gold-field, is about twenty-six miles further on, through a picturesque country of grassy meadows and well-wooded hills. The Tarradale Viaduct...is reached before arriving at Castlemaine from the south. It is in the neighbourhood of some very rich quartz reefs, which have been worked so profitably that the roadside station of Tarradale has rapidly grown into a town...The Tarradale Viaduct is about 600 ft. in length and 100 ft. high. Its construction differs in no respect from that of many similar works in Great Britain'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864. Tarradale Viaduct, on the Melbourne and Sandhurst Railway, Australia, 1864. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
(RM) 609485825
SCENE OF THE DISASTER AT BELOEIL BRIDGE...CANADA, 1864. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
Scene of the disaster at Beloeil Bridge, near Montreal, on the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, 1864. Engraving from a sketch. '...at the foot of Beloeil Mountain...the River Richelieu is spanned by an iron bridge...A drawbridge forms the connection...[with] the Montreal side...The rule is that this drawbridge should always be supposed to be open, and that the train should therefore come to a dead stand on approaching the bridge, and not attempt to proceed until the proper signal has been given...The train, however, did not pull up at all...the engine-driver, Burney...alleges that he found it impossible to stop the train in time...the train dashed on at a great pace, and...when it arrived at the drawbridge it was found to be swung round for some boats to pass. Down this yawning abyss the cars, with their living freight, dashed headlong. The locomotive and tender, with the first five cars (baggage), went in first, the six passenger-cars piling down on top of them with terrific violence, being precipitated a distance of some seventy feet...the cars fell on one of the barges, sinking it...eighty-six bodies [were] recovered from the river. The driver of the train escaped the death which had befallen so many of those committed to his charge'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864. Scene of the disaster at Beloeil Bridge...Canada, 1864. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
(RM) 609485710
A NOVEMBER DAY IN NANT-FRANCON, BY J. C. REED, IN THE EXHIBITION OF THE INSTITUTE OF..., 1864. CREATOR: MASON JACKSON.
A November Day in Nant-Francon, by J. C. Reed, in the exhibition of the Institute of Painters in Water Colours, 1864. Engraving of a painting. 'North Wales is the most favourite resort of the English painter as well as tourist...There are few views so magnificent as those afforded in this vale. Indeed, with the exception of Llanberis Pass, the finest gorge in the whole country is that formed by the enormous block of mountain of which Carneddau, Davydd, and Llewelyn, are the centres, seen on the spectator's right hand in the picture, and the still more savage and precipitous chain on the left intervening between Llyn Ogwen and Llanberis, and which at one point seems as if about to close over the pass and block it up. The name of Nant-Francon - "the Glen of Beavers" - recalls the ancient time when the stream of the Ogwen was a haunt of these strange creatures...The terrors of the scene depicted in Mr. Reed's fine drawing are aggravated by the snows and rains of early winter, which are already whitening the slopes of the mountains, hanging murkily in the sky, swelling the streams into angry, foaming cataracts, and imparting to the whole scene a deeper and more sombre aspect of desolateness'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864. A November Day in Nant-Francon, by J. C. Reed, in the exhibition of the Institute of..., 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
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