Railway Bridge Collection (#10)

Forth Railway Bridge; Edinburgh, Scotland

The High Level Bridge and Swing Bridge over the River Tyne, Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, seen here in the late-19th century. From Great Engineers, published c.1890

Historic image in sepia of the railway tracks on Forth Bridge, a cantilever railway bridge across the Firth of Forth, circa 1896; Edinburgh, Inchgarvie and Fife, Scotland

Bridges across River Tyne, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England
Bridges across River Tyne at Newcastle and Gateshead; Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England

Railway bridge Ohre Karlovy Vary Rail tunnels
Railway bridge over the Ohře in Karlovy Vary, Rail tunnels in the Czech Republic, Steam locomotives of the Czech Republic, 1901, Karlovy Vary Region, Karlsbad, Partie an der Eger mit Eisenbahnbrucke

Co Louth, Drogheda And River Boyne

Tressel Bridge Over Sturgeon River; St. Albert, Alberta, Canada

Cars parked outside London Bridge Station, 1931. Cars, one with white-walled tyres, parked beside the railway bridge, with an advertisement for the National Building Society

Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge, built 1851-1855, wood engraving, published 1872
Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge, built in 1851 to 1855 by John August Roebling (German-American architect, 1806 - 1869). The bridge was replaced in 1896 by the current Whirlpool Rapids Bridge

Viaduct on the Baltimore & Washington Railroad, c1838. Artist: Henry Adlard
Viaduct on the Baltimore & Washington Railroad, c1838. Illustration after a painting by William Henry Bartlett (1809-1854) who visited the United States in the 1830s

Medal commemorating the building of the Britannia Tubular Bridge, North Wales, c1850. The Britannia Tubular Bridge was designed by Robert Stephenson (1803-1859)

Busy Railroad
Steam engines on a steel bridge at Richmond, Virginia, circa 1925. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Flying Scotsman Express Train Crossing Croxdale Viaduct September 1928
September 1928: The Flying Scotsman express train crossing Croxdale viaduct. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Steam Power
1926: An array of steam locomotives outside Paddington Station, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Liverpool Street station, West, August 1911
Liverpool Street station, West, 8 August 1911. View under Pindar Street bridge into platforms 1 to 4. Train for Palace Gates in no. 3, with inspection pit, in foreground

CJ1 1077 01 love locks
A collection from the many thousands of Love locks, Hohenzollern Bridge, Koln, Germany

Glasgow Central Station, Glasgow, 2005
Central Station, Glasgow, LANARKSHIRE, SCOTLAND facing NW. NCAP: RCAHMS Aerial Survey - 22/07/2005

White Pass steam train commemorating the Ton of Gold from Dawson to Seattle on the line between Bennett and Skagway, Alaska, USA

The Depot and Summit House, Mount Washington, 1883. From America Illustrated, edited by J. David Williams. [DeWolfe, Fiske & Company, Boston, 1883]

Monkstown - From Monkstown Pier Station, 1895. From Round the Coast. [George Newnes Limited, London, 1895]

Viaducto da EF Ingleza, 1895. Artist: Paulo Kowalsky
Viaducto da E. F. Ingleza, 1895. From Sao Paulo by Gustavo Koenigswald. [S. Paulo, 1895]

Ponte da E. F. Mogyana sobre o Rio Pardo, 1895. Artist: Axel Frick
Ponte da E. F. Mogyana sobre o Rio Pardo, 1895. The Mogiana Railroad Company was a Brazilian railway company established in 1872 with headquarters in the city of Campinas, Sao Paulo

Central Railway of Brazil: Tunnelling throught the Serra do MAr, 1914
Central Railway of Brazil: Tunnelling throught the Serra do Mar, 1914. From The Beautiful Rio De Janeiro by Alured Gray Bell. [William Heinemann, London, 1914]

Railway and Swing Bridges, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, c1905. View of the Swing Bridge over the Tyne, with Robert Stephensons High Level Bridge in the background

Royal Albert Bridge, Saltash, Cornwall, late 19th or early 20th century. Artist: Church Army Lantern Department
Royal Albert Bridge, Saltash, Cornwall, late 19th or early 20th century. Isambard Kingdom Brunel built the Royal Albert Bridge to carry the Great Western Railway (GWR)

Sutlej Bridge, India, late 19th or early 20th century. Lantern slide

Eads Bridge, St Louis, Missouri, USA, c1874. Designed by James B Eads, the bridge crosses the Mississippi between St Louis and East St Louis, Illinois

St Pauls Cathedral from Fleet Street on a Sunday, London, c1930s. The dome of Sir Christopher Wrens cathedral, built to replace the one destroyed by the Great Fire of London

Men in Highland dress in front of the Forth Bridge, Scotland. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Men in Highland dress in front of the Forth Bridge, Scotland. The Forth Railway bridge, which spans the Firth of Forth, was built for the North British Railway and opened on 4 March 1890

The Forth Bridge, Scotland. Artist: Excelsior Stereoscopic Tours
The Forth Bridge, Scotland. The Forth Railway bridge, which spans the Firth of Forth, was built for the North British Railway and opened on 4 March 1890

Cologne Cathedral from a railway bridge, Cologne, Germany. Artist: EW Kelley
Cologne Cathedral from a railway bridge, Cologne, Germany. The cathedral in Cologne was begun in 1248 but was not finally completed until 1880. It is the largest Gothic church in northern Europe

Pom-pom bridge and Boer headquarters telegraph station, Tugela River, Natal, South Africa, 1901. Stereoscopic card

Railway bridge across the Vals River at Kroonstad, blown up by the Boers, South Africa, 1901. Stereoscopic card

Sao Paulo Railway, Brazil, early 20th century

The Royal Albert Bridge, Saltash, Cornwall, 1926. Artist: Cavenders Ltd
The Royal Albert Bridge, Saltash, Cornwall, 1926. From the River Valleys set of hand-coloured cigarette cards issued with Army Club Cigarettes, Cavanders Ltd, 1926

Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, 1937. View of the River Nidd and the 19th-century railway bridge. Sights of Britain, third series of 48 cigarette cards, issued with Senior Service, Junior Member

Forth Bridge, Scotland, 1902

Tay Bridge, Scotland, 1902

Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London, 1870. Big Ben is actually the bell inside St Stephens Tower but has come to signify the clock tower itself

The Viaduct at Morlaix, France, 1879. The railway bridge over the Dossen River was built between 1861 and 1863

Rain, Steam, and Speed. The Great Western Railway, 1844. Artist: Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851)
Rain, Steam, and Speed. The Great Western Railway, 1844. Found in the collection of the National Gallery, London

Railway Bridge at Chatou, 1881. Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Railway Bridge at Chatou, 1881. Found in the collection of the Musee d Orsay, Paris, France

Forth Railway Bridge from the south-east, Scotland, c1895. This bridge, built for the North British Railway Company, was begun in 1882 and opened on 4 March 1890

Dee Viaduct, Vale of Llangollen, on the Shrewsbury, Wales and Chester Railway c1848. This viaduct was built between April 1846 and August 1848 at a cost of £ 76, 000

Wooden trestle bridge on the Union Pacific Railroad, Dale Creek, Wyoming, USA, 1869. At 150 feet in height, the Dale Creek trestle bridge was the highest on the Union Pacific

Trestle Bridge on the Union Pacific Railroad, USA, 1876. A train crossing a wooden trestle bridge in the Sierra Nevada, California

Railway bridge and Novodevichy Convent (New Maidens Convent), Moscow, Russia, 1910s. Standing on the bank of the Moskva River

Train crossing a wooden trestle bridge on the Union Pacific Railroad, Wyoming, USA, c1870
Train crossing a wooden trestle bridge on the Union Pacific Railroad, near Sherman, Wyoming, USA, c1870. Incorporated by an Act of Congress in 1862

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