. Views on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway . THE COWRAN CUT. This Cutting is situated west of the River Gelt, about 8 miles from Carlisle. It is nearly amile long. The deepest part is that which is walled at the foot of the slopes for a length ofhalf a mile : this part is one hundred and ten feet in depth. The walls are fourteen feet tunnel through this hill was at one time intended, hut that idea was abandoned after a suffi-cient trial had been made, in consequence of the difficulties and expence likely to ensue fromthe strength of the springs, and the looseness of the sand of which
. Views on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway . THE COWRAN CUT. This Cutting is situated west of the River Gelt, about 8 miles from Carlisle. It is nearly amile long. The deepest part is that which is walled at the foot of the slopes for a length ofhalf a mile : this part is one hundred and ten feet in depth. The walls are fourteen feet tunnel through this hill was at one time intended, hut that idea was abandoned after a suffi-cient trial had been made, in consequence of the difficulties and expence likely to ensue fromthe strength of the springs, and the looseness of the sand of which the hill is chiefly composed. At the time this cutting was completed, it was considered to be the largest that had beenexecuted in England. LIBRARY UNIVERSITY of ILLINOIS. NEW CASTLE-ON-TYNE. The portion of Railway represented in the foreground of tins view is on the south side ofthe Tyne, and is a branch from the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway of about 3§ miles in departs from the main line at Blaydon, and terminates at Redheugh Quay, where it is joinedby the Brandling Junction Railway, which after passing through Gateshead, will communicatewith South Shields and Sunderland. This branch will be used principally for the conveyance of Coals from the Collieries, westof Newcastle, on the south side of the Tyne. of ™£v,. nnO»S
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