. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . 2d July, 1854. The engineers of this bridge wereRobert Stephenson and Alexander The original design for theliridge had been made by T. C. contractors were Messrs. Peto,Drassey, Betts & Co. The bridge wascompleted toward the close of 1859, ayear before the contract time. It wasformally inaugurated in i860 by thePrince of Wales, now Edward VII. The Victoria bridge was a singletube composed of 25 spans. The floorof the centre tube was 60 ft. above thewater line, and there was
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . 2d July, 1854. The engineers of this bridge wereRobert Stephenson and Alexander The original design for theliridge had been made by T. C. contractors were Messrs. Peto,Drassey, Betts & Co. The bridge wascompleted toward the close of 1859, ayear before the contract time. It wasformally inaugurated in i860 by thePrince of Wales, now Edward VII. The Victoria bridge was a singletube composed of 25 spans. The floorof the centre tube was 60 ft. above thewater line, and there was an up gradeboth ways toward the centre, of I in the abutments the height from the bot-tom of the tube to the water was muchless. The total length of the bridge waswith approaches 9,144 ft. Each of the24 spans was about 242 ft. long. Thecentre, or channel span, was 330 On account of the current, andthe Lachine rapids above the bridge,the river is navigable in one name of these rapids was givenby the discoverer of the St. Lawrenceriver, the French navigator, Jacques. THE MENAI STRAIT WITH TUBULAR AND SUSPENSION BRIDGES. bottom, and there are eight cells i ins. square on the top. The tubeis therefore a box with floor and roofstiffened by a series of smaller corners of the large tubes werestiffened by gusset plates at each ofthe ribs which were formed by thejunction of the side plates. The bridge is situated in a lovelysection of the country and is an im-posing structure which adds to ratherthan detracts from the natural beauty the locomtive, outcome of the peacefularts, has here its iron road, and what-ever the significance of the deviceupon the bridge may be, this magnifi-cent structure stands as the statelygateway to the ancient principality ofWales, as it were, with the portcullislifted and with bridge floor level forthe unchallenged passage to the heartof the kingdom, of the traveler and thecommerce from many lands. .Another famous
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