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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)
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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)
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THE FATAL EXPLOSION AT ST. EDMUND'S MAIN COLLIERY, BARNSLEY, 1862. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
The fatal explosion at St. Edmund's Main Colliery, Barnsley: trench cut to the Dearne and the Dove Canal for the purpose of flooding the pit, 1862. 'The last of the seventeen rescued persons was brought up from the Edmond's Main Colliery on the afternoon of Tuesday fortnight, and the proprietors, seeing the hopelessness of saving any more, took counsel of several mining engineers, and by their advice a number of men were set to work to cut a trench...This was an arduous task, as the cutting was required to be fourteen feet deep, and much of it through rock; besides which it implied the loss of all hope, and, consequently, gave great dissatisfaction to the friends of the missing men. A deputation of colliers waited upon the managers to request a further search to be made, but, as it was deemed both useless and dangerous, a negative answer was returned, which at one time it was feared would lead to a riot, a large crowd collecting round the office, one or whom threw a stone through the window... No doubt was entertained that that portion of the pit where the explosion commenced was completely inundated; but there were evidences of fire yet existing in. a portion of the upper workings, and the water was turned in on Friday'. From "Illustrated London News", 1862. The fatal explosion at St. Edmund's Main Colliery, Barnsley, 1862. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
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