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Opening of the Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway - Duddon Sands Viaduct, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

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Opening of the Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway - Duddon Sands Viaduct, 1850. 'One of the interesting objects on the line is the viaduct across Duddon Sands, [which forms] the boundary between Cumberland and Lancashire. [The viaduct is] a very handsome wooden structure, and of great strength...it is nearly 400 yards long, and has no less than forty-nine openings'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM22A36_302

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Droits gérés

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34,9Mo (2,7Mo) / 42,0cm x 20,8cm / 4960 x 2461 (300dpi)

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transport transportation river England railways sand bridge bridges British geography Cumbria railway mouth structure railway line Victorian century railway tracks lancashire Britain train track newspapers railway track press sandy viaduct B&W engraved engraving railway bridge estuary sandbank 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century The Print Collector geographical feature Illustrated London News TGN ILN newspaper landscape Unknown Duddon Sands 19th-century Whitehaven & Furness Junction Railway Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway River Duddon