Type of bridge crossing a valley or a gorge

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A railway viaduct over the sea between Dover and Folkestone forming the entrance to a tunnel under the English Channel. Lithograph.

Great Western Railway: a long viaduct in a landscape with people nearby discussing it. Lithograph by George Barnard.

Civil engineering: railway bridges at Kaunas. Lithograph by J. R. Jobbins after F. H. Horne.

A steam train is travelling across a viaduct at Nanterre with a road, a carriage and horses underneath. Engraving by Lemaitre after C. Rauch.

Civil engineering: viaducts in Austria. Lithograph by W. West after F. H. Horne.

The Radcliffe Viaduct, Radcliffe on Trent, Nottinghamshire: a locomotive passing over the River Trent, and cattle drinking in the river. Lithograph by George Childs.

The Royal Naval Hospital and the Queen's House, Greenwich, the Gravesend Railway viaduct in front. Zincograph by Chapman & Co., 1835.

A steam train travelling on the London and Croydon Railway towards London Bridge. Tinted lithograph by E. Duncan, 1838.

London and Birmingham Railway: the viaduct over the River Avon at Wolston, Warwickshire. Tinted lithograph by J.C. Bourne, 1838.

Civil engineering: a railway bridge at Cologne. Lithograph by J. R. Jobbins after E. H. Horne.

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Viaducts

Images from the collections

Images referencing Viaducts

Works from the collections

Civil engineering: viaducts in Austria. Lithograph by W. West after F. H. Horne.

A railway viaduct over the sea between Dover and Folkestone forming the entrance to a tunnel under the English Channel. Lithograph.

Great Western Railway: a long viaduct in a landscape with people nearby discussing it. Lithograph by George Barnard.

A steam train is travelling across a viaduct at Nanterre with a road, a carriage and horses underneath. Engraving by Lemaitre after C. Rauch.

A steam train travelling on the London and Croydon Railway towards London Bridge. Tinted lithograph by E. Duncan, 1838.

Viaducts

Images from the collections

Images referencing Viaducts

Works from the collections

Civil engineering: viaducts in Austria. Lithograph by W. West after F. H. Horne.

A railway viaduct over the sea between Dover and Folkestone forming the entrance to a tunnel under the English Channel. Lithograph.

Great Western Railway: a long viaduct in a landscape with people nearby discussing it. Lithograph by George Barnard.

A steam train is travelling across a viaduct at Nanterre with a road, a carriage and horses underneath. Engraving by Lemaitre after C. Rauch.

A steam train travelling on the London and Croydon Railway towards London Bridge. Tinted lithograph by E. Duncan, 1838.

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