'The Britannia Tubular Bridge across the Menai Strait, 1850: Built by Robert Stephenson', (1901). View of the Bridge designed by engineer Robert Stephenson (1803-1859). Construction began in 1846 and the bridge was opened on 18 March 1850. It was constructed to provide trains of the Chester and Holyhead Railway with a passageway across the Menai Straits from mainland Wales to Anglesey. The railway terminated at Holyhead, which became a major port for travellers to Ireland. The Menai Suspension Bridge, a road bridge designed by Thomas Telford and completed in 1826, can be seen in the distance.
'The Britannia Tubular Bridge across the Menai Strait, 1850: Built by Robert Stephenson', (1901). View of the Bridge designed by engineer Robert Stephenson (1803-1859). Construction began in 1846 and the bridge was opened on 18 March 1850. It was constructed to provide trains of the Chester and Holyhead Railway with a passageway across the Menai Straits from mainland Wales to Anglesey. The railway terminated at Holyhead, which became a major port for travellers to Ireland. The Menai Suspension Bridge, a road bridge designed by Thomas Telford and completed in 1826, can be seen in the distance. From "The Illustrated London News Record of the Glorious Reign of Queen Victoria 1837-1901: The Life and Accession of King Edward VII. and the Life of Queen Alexandra". [London, 1901]
Size: 4580px × 3629px
Photo credit: © The Print Collector / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: /, 1900s, 19th, 20th, anglesey, bridge, bridges, britain, britannia, british, century, collector, concept, country, engineering, illustrated, iln, innovation, landscape, location, london, menai, news, newspaper, newspapers, nineteenth, press, print, railway, railways, robert, ship, ships, stephenson, strait, structure, suspension, technology, tgn, transport, transportation, tubular, unknown, victorian, wales, water
