Sujet

Great Fire at the Southern and Western Railway Station, Cork, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Great Fire at the Southern and Western Railway Station, Cork, [Ireland], 1850. '...a destructive fire broke out in the Cork terminus of the Great Southern and Western Railway. The permanent buildings, the engine and traffic department, were at one time in considerable danger, and would have been very seriously injured were it not for the exertions of the company's officers, who were at the place a few moments after the fire made its appearance. The station-house, comprising the booking-office, the waiting-rooms, the porters' room, the master's office, and the lamp-room, were burned to the ground before any effective assistance arrived. The amount of damage is not known as yet, but none of the goods which had been sent in during the day for transmission were injured. The premises are reduced to the four chimney-shafts shown in the accompanying sketch'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22A34_201

Model release

NA

Property release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

56,2Mo (4,2Mo) / 42,0cm x 33,5cm / 4960 x 3959 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation building buildings people male man men railways night chimneys guy burning fire British railway Ireland dramatic chimney accident railway line cork Victorian century railway tracks Britain train track newspapers railway track press concept incident time of day B&W engraved engraving County Cork 19th century black & white black and white B W on fire nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News TGN ILN newspaper Unknown Great Southern and Western Railway 19th-century GS&WR