. Our iron roads: their history, construction and administration . E3E| circuitous route, first north and then west, or to leave histrain and cross the river by steamboat from Birkenhead. Atlength, to quote the Tourist Guide of Messrs. Morton & Co.,for whose cheap and beautiful productions innumerable readersare greatly indebted, the London and North-Western Com-pany resolved to overcome every obstacle and to carry theirmain line right over the Mersey, and at such an elevation asnot to interrupt the busy navigation of the river. Runcornviaduct consists of thirty-three arches : one of 20 feet s
. Our iron roads: their history, construction and administration . E3E| circuitous route, first north and then west, or to leave histrain and cross the river by steamboat from Birkenhead. Atlength, to quote the Tourist Guide of Messrs. Morton & Co.,for whose cheap and beautiful productions innumerable readersare greatly indebted, the London and North-Western Com-pany resolved to overcome every obstacle and to carry theirmain line right over the Mersey, and at such an elevation asnot to interrupt the busy navigation of the river. Runcornviaduct consists of thirty-three arches : one of 20 feet span,twenty-nine of 40 feet span, and three of 61 feet. The centralpart of the bridge that stretches over the navigable channel CONWAY TUBULAR BRIDGE. 205 rests on four massive castellated piers, 300 feet apart, thatsink into the bed of the river, and carry the girders 80 feetabove the water. Ten other arches form the west bankviaduct; this leads to an embankment ; and the line is nowcontinued upon the Ditton viaduct of forty-nine arches. Theappearance of the
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