L1172 - Iron Girder bridge near High Wycombe

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8672

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Description

L1172 - Iron girder bridge over a steep sided cutting on the newly completed railway near High Wycombe, captured by S. W. A. Newton sometime around 1904. The bridge would be of a fairly standard pattern found all over the Great Western & Great Central Joint Railway, and on the GCR's London Extension. This example appears to be built on a gradient as the right-hand abutment is distinctly lower that the left. The permanent way is in the process of being laid - the hard core base is down on the track bed awaiting the sleepers, rails and ballast. This is the reverse view to that shown in Newton - B 2/7.

British Railways - S. W. A. Newton Collection

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Maker

S.W.A. Newton

LCC ID. No.

L1172.tif

Image Use

Personal use only unless otherwise agreed

Notes

IM&ICT - RC
Original media type: Glass plate negative

Exhibitions with this image

L1172 - Iron girder bridge over a steep sided cutting on the newly completed railway near High Wycombe, captured by S. W. A. Newton sometime around 1904. The bridge would be of a fairly standard pattern found all over the Great Western & Great Central Joint Railway, and on the GCR's London Extension. This example appears to be built on a gradient as the right-hand abutment is distinctly lower that the left. The permanent way is in the process of being laid - the hard core base is down on the track bed awaiting the sleepers, rails and ballast. This is the reverse view to that shown in Newton - B 2/7.

British Railways - S. W. A. Newton Collection

Subjects

Transport

Transport > Rail

Working Life

Working Life > Industrial

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