Title

'Truro, from Trennick Lane', 1860. Artist: Unknown

Caption

'Truro, from Trennick Lane', 1860. The Cornwall Railway, later part of the Great Western Railway (GWR), at Truro, showing one of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's (1806-1859) timber viaducts, built from Kyanzed yellow Baltic pine from Memel. The timberwork had a life of 30 years. Illustration after George Townsend for Views of Devonshire and Cornwall by Henry Besley. (Exeter, c1860).
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1860

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B66_099

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (2,7Mb) / 16,9in x 11,5in / 5079 x 3439 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation city river animal England agriculture timber town country bridge sheep British geography English railway Cornwall location Victorian century Britain shepherd civil engineering viaduct B&W MONOCHROME 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century Truro Oxford Science Archive Cornish Cornwall Railway geographical feature Great Western Railway GWR TGN engraving landscape Unknown George Henry Isambard Kingdom Brunel Brunel Isambard Kingdom George Townsend;Townsend Henry Besley Besley Henry Besley Isambard Kingdom Brunel engraving landscape