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Tunnels

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  • A trial journey on the first part of the underground railway in London. Wood engraving, 1862.
  • An underground tunnel with a truck on the track. Wood engraving, 1868.
  • Workmen fitting metal casings to form an underground tunnel. Wood engraving, 1868.
  • Engineering: mines and tunnelling. Engraving.
  • Liverpool: a railway tunnel cut into the mountain side with men working on scaffolding above and cutting stone below. Engraving by J. Davies  after C. and G. Pyne.
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    Men hauling excavated soil up a shaft in a bucket suspended from a rope, driven by a steam hoist. Wood engraving, 1868.

    | Date: 1868 | Reference: 36584i
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    Survey work on the Lochaber water-power scheme / by Robert Dundas Duncan and Edward Melville Royds Jones.

    Duncan, Robert Dundas. | Date: 1934
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    Workmen fitting the metal casings for an underground tunnel. Wood engraving, 1868.

    | Date: 1868 | Reference: 36588i
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    Section of the Thames embankment in 1867: the position of the low-level sewer is shown. Wood engraving.

    | Reference: 37792i
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    Liverpool: a railway tunnel cut into the mountain side with men working on scaffolding above and cutting stone below. Engraving by J. Davies after C. and G. Pyne.

    | Date: 1831 | Reference: 45459i
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