Image from page 42 of "Our iron roads: their history, construction and administration" (1883)
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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/n42/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/n42/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: e tons weight ; it carrieda tub of rainwater for the boiler, and three or four barrow-loads of coke for the furnace. The boiler had one tube, areturn tube. The fireman rode on the foot-plate, but the driverstood at the front end of his engine on the buffer-plank, and he COST OF CONSTRnr. TON. 23 had a seat on one side boarded in. But he was out in the openduring rain, hail, or sunshine; and this arrangement lasted aslong as the engine lasted. Mr. Stephenson, having thus been the successful competitor,was appointed to build the engines of the railway, and fromthat period to his death he conducted the engineering depart-ment of the company. The construction of the works of the Liverpool and Man-chester Railway required immense and unremitting labour.Besides the embankment over Chat Moss, to which we shallhave again to refer, there was the building of viaducts, theformation of cuttings and embankments, the erection of sixty-three bridges, and the construction of a tunnel near Liverpool ; Text Appearing After Image: THE SANS PAREIL. besides the laying down of the permanent way, the erection ofstations and warehouses, and the preparation of the engines,carriages, and wagons. The cost was as follows :— Cuttings and Embankments ,£I99»763 Chat Moss Tunnel . Land Fencing . Bridges Formation of Road Laying of Blocks and Sleepers ,, Rails {£11 \os. per ton) Surveying, Law, Parliamentary, and Incidental 27,71947,788 95,30510,20299,06520,56820,52060,912157,341 ^739,83 24 OUR IRON ROADS. The opening of the line took place on the 15th of September,is>\ when the Duke of Wellington, Prime Minister, Mr. Peel,Home Secretary, Mr. Huskisson, and a number of other dis-tinguished persons, were to pass in the first train with thedirectors. A gay cortige of thirty-three carriages, accompaniedby bands of music, started from Liverpool, amidst the acclama-tions of a countless multitude of observers, and with all thesplendour of an ancient pageant. But soon the enjoyment ofthe scene was marred. While the engines 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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