Opening of the Aberdeen Railway - Dee Bridge and Aberdeen Terminus, 1850. 'In the foreground is represented the elegant bridge across the Dee, from the designs of Messrs. Locke and the background are seen the suspension-bridge erected several years enterprising city of , for some time, been the only town of its size in the island without a direct railroad communication with the metropolis; and the commercial advantages likely to result from this establishment of a direct continuous route of upwards of 500 miles to London, cannot be too highly appreciated.
Opening of the Aberdeen Railway - Dee Bridge and Aberdeen Terminus, 1850. 'In the foreground is represented the elegant bridge across the Dee, from the designs of Messrs. Locke and the background are seen the suspension-bridge erected several years enterprising city of , for some time, been the only town of its size in the island without a direct railroad communication with the metropolis; and the commercial advantages likely to result from this establishment of a direct continuous route of upwards of 500 miles to London, cannot be too highly goods - for instance, those imported into Glasgow from the West Indies, and which must run risk of injury from frequent handling and change of transport - will now be conveyed direct, instead of the circuitous route by rail or canal to Leith or Edinburgh, and thence by sea'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.
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