SMARDALE VIADUCT IN COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION
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Identifier: ourironroads00will Title: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidourironroads00will">Our iron roads: their history, construction and administration Year: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookyear1883">1883 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookdecade1880">1880s) Authors: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookauthorWilliams__Frederick_Smeeton__1829_1886">Williams, Frederick Smeeton, 1829-1886 Subjects: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectRailroads____History">Railroads -- History https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectRailroads____Great_Britain">Railroads -- Great Britain Publisher: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookpublisherLondon___Bemrose___sons">London : Bemrose & sons Contributing Library: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookcontributorUniversity_of_California_Libraries">University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksponsorMSN">MSN View Book Page: https://archive.org/stream/ourironroads00will/ourironroads00will#page/n203/mode/1up" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Book Viewer About This Book: https://archive.org/details/ourironroads00will" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Catalog Entry View All Images: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidourironroads00will">All Images From Book Click here to https://archive.org/stream/ourironroads00will/ourironroads00will#page/n203/mode/1up" rel="noreferrer nofollow">view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: is raised to the new height, and sothe work is continued to another stage. By these means stonesof great size can be used. The engravings of Arten Gill viaduct, in the Vale of Dent,and of Smardale viaduct, near Kirkby Stephen, present a vivididea of such works in course of construction. Arten Gill viaductis 660 feet long, of eleven arches, each of 45 feet span, and therails are 117 feet above the water. In the erection of Smardale viaduct more than 60,000 tons i*4 OTR IRON ROADS. of stone were used. It is the highest viaduct on the Midlandsystem, being 130 feet from the stream to the rails, and its lengthis 710 feet. Viaducts are of great value in traversing rivers or deep valleys.A an illustration of the contingencies which have to be dealtwith in the construction of such works, it may be mentionedthat a viaduct having on one occasion been planned across awide and deep valley on a series of lofty arches, it was found inthe execution of the work, that the precise spot on which it was Text Appearing After Image: SMARDALE VIADUCT IN COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION. intended to rear one of the central piers came exactly over themouth of an ancient coal pit. In the building of viaducts, stone, brick, iron and wood areemployed, separately or together ; the local materials being pre-ferred. In the earlier railways timber was frequently resortedto, the beams being trussed with iron ; and the expense ofcoffer-damming in crossing water was avoided. One of thesestructures was built on the Derby and Birmingham line, whichcrosses the Thame and Trent rivers, its length being more than VIADUCTS. IS twelve hundred feet, and its mean height thirty-three feet; butits cost per cubic yard was little less than that of many stonestructures. On the North Union line a timber viaduct of greatlength was erected ; and on some of the Scotch railways thesystem of trussed-beam viaducts was applied to very large spans.Another timber viaduct, which combined great lightness ofappearance, economy of materials, and smallness of cost, Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. -
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