Sujet
'Break of Gauge at Gloucester', Gloucestershire, 6th June 1846. Artist: WJ Linton
Légende
'Break of Gauge at Gloucester', Gloucestershire, 6th June 1846. Plate taken from the Illustrated London News (6 June 1846) showing passengers and luggage being transferred from broad gauge to narrow gauge carriages at Gloucester station, on their way to Birmingham. Narrow gauge became the uniform railway line gauge nationally. Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the engineer of the Great Western Railway (GWR) had laid broad gauge track, meaning that passengers on the GWR had to be transferred to trains that ran on narrow gauge where necessary.
Oxford Science Archive
Date
1846
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images
Notre référence
HRM19B63_139
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
18,0Mo (1,8Mo) / 26,5cm x 17,0cm / 3132 x 2009 (300dpi)