Thomas Telford in detail (3)
This is the third part of the feature on Thomas Telford’s achievements. The first part of this feature used colour versions of the Rosoman painting located on the left hand side of the work sourced from the Internet with some upscaling involved. Th post depicts the structures on the right…
Thomas Telford in detail (2)
This is the second part of the feature on Thomas Telford’s achievements. Telford was of course one of Britian’s greatest engineers – except he built few railways but mostly roads or canals. Many of his canals in fact supplemented railways built by others. In the first part we looked at…
Thomas Telford in detail
This isn’t some anatomical write-up on the composition of Thomas Telford’s body! Rather its a relatively unknown painting that commemorates his life’s work. There’s barely anything on the internet about this painting thus I deemed it an appropriate move to write a post about that work. How this came about…
Lincoln Road crossing
A unique foot crossing, possibly the most unusual of all those to be found in London – and absolutely nothing like any of the other foot crossings anywhere in all of Greater London. This is the Lincoln Road crossing in Enfield and its one neither morthren nor Geoff M have…
Driving thro rail tunnels for fun!
Whilst researching the Gotthard Bahn the other week I got this idea for a couple of ‘road trips’ through some railway tunnels. Generally no-one can just drive cars through any railway tunnels, but what I am about to discuss is very different! Take for example the Schöllenen railway. Some of…
London viaduct with high/low lines #2
The 1,19 km (3,911 ft) long Silvertown Viaduct which connects West Silvertown to Canning Town was the first instance of a viaduct of its kind constructed for an expanding road network. It opened as the nation’s first contemporary vehicle by-pass and is recognised as the UK’s first-ever road fly-over. A…
London viaduct with high & low lines!
These days there’s talk of high lines (Camden, Peckham) whilst London already has a low line which I have written about here. These are walking routes along the top or along the bottom of viaducts. This is one viaduct, a real historic one too that has both a ready made…
Marylebone Circus
There’s London’s famous Oxford Circus (which was formerly called Regent Circus), Piccadilly Circus, and not forgetting Cambridge Circus, Holborn Circus, even the lesser known Arnold, Battersea, Finsbury, Ludgate, Mill Hill, Savoy, St George’s, St Giles, Westferry and Queen’s Circuses. And there’s Marylebone Circus! There’s no such place in London! The…
Rossfeld Panoramic Road – (location for the Sound of Music’s final scenes)
The Rossfeld Panoramic Road (Roßfeldpanoramastraße) is a mountain pass with a fame that isn’t often mentioned – and no, its not the infamy of those who built the road in the first place…. Wikipedia says of the mountain route: ‘The toll road leads over the Hossfeld, a northern foothill of…