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Gaunless Bridge was a railway bridge on the Stockton and Darlington Railway. It was completed in 1823 and is one of the first railway bridges to be constructed of iron and the first to use an iron tru
Engraving published in The Engineer (1875)
Stephenson's design, 1823
Gaunless Bridge, before 1901
Part of the bridge on display at Locomotion Museum in Shildon
The Stockton and Darlington Railway was a railway company that operated in north-east England from 1825 to 1863. The world's first public railway to use steam locomotives, its first line connected col
Gaunless Bridge
…Gaunless Bridge was a railway bridge on the Stockton and Darlington Railway. It was completed in 1823 and is one of the first railway bridges to be constructed of iron and the first to use an iron truss. It is also of an unusual…
In the Opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, a watercolour painted in the 1880s by John Dobbin, crowds watch the inaugural train cross the Skerne Bridge in Darlington.
The seal of the Stockton and Darlington Railway
Stephenson's iron bridge across the Gaunless
The opening procession of the Stockton and Darlington Railway crosses the Skerne bridge