Sujet

Opening of the Aberdeen Railway - Dee Bridge and Aberdeen Terminus, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Opening of the Aberdeen Railway - Dee Bridge and Aberdeen Terminus, 1850. 'In the foreground is represented the elegant bridge across the Dee, from the designs of Messrs. Locke and Errington...In the background are seen the suspension-bridge erected several years ago...the enterprising city of Aberdeen...has, for some time, been the only town of its size in the island without a direct railroad communication with the metropolis; and the commercial advantages likely to result from this establishment of a direct continuous route of upwards of 500 miles to London, cannot be too highly appreciated...Many goods - for instance, those imported into Glasgow from the West Indies, and which must run risk of injury from frequent handling and change of transport - will now be conveyed direct, instead of the circuitous route by rail or canal to Leith or Edinburgh, and thence by sea'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22A33_452

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

36,1Mo (3,0Mo) / 42,0cm x 21,6cm / 4960 x 2547 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation river railways train bridge bridges clothes British geography railway Scotland structure station cargo dress railway line railway station Victorian century railway tracks Aberdeen train station Britain train track steam train newspapers railway track press clothing concept APPAREL B&W freight train direct engraved engraving railway bridge Goods Train 19th century black & white black and white B W River Dee nineteenth century steam locomotive The Print Collector Dee geographical feature Illustrated London News TGN ILN newspaper landscape Unknown 19th-century