Sujet

The Moorabool Viaduct on the Melbourne and Ballarat Railway, Australia, 1862. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Moorabool Viaduct on the Melbourne and Ballarat Railway, Australia, 1862. In 1851, gold was discovered near Ballarat, sparking the Victorian gold rush. 'The railway having been formally opened, great was the rejoicing of the Ballaratians, who are sanguine in the expectation of a marked increase in the prosperity of their township in consequence...The piers are spanned by iron latticed girders, each span being 130ft. The weight of the girders is about 1500 tons. The original design of the line, including that of the viaduct, is due to Mr. Darbyshire; but upon his successor, Mr. Higginbotham, as engineer-in-chief, has devolved the duty of seeing it carried out. The cost of the Moorabool Viaduct is estimated at something like £300,000'. From "Illustrated London News", 1862.

Date

1862

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM24A09_227

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

53,0Mo (6,1Mo) / 47,7cm x 27,8cm / 5638 x 3284 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation technology railways arts Australia industry metal art bridge bridges British railway color structure industrial mining Victoria century iron Britain newspapers press print viaduct B&W cast iron gold mining engraved engraving Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black gold rush Ballarat nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News TGN ILN newspaper Unknown 19th-century Melbourne & Ballarat Railway Melbourne and Ballarat Railway Moorabool Viaduct