Thomas Elliot Harrison was an English engineer. Born in Fulham, London, he was raised in the north east of England, where his father was a promoter of early railway companies; after an apprenticeship
T.E. Harrison painted by Walter William Ouless c.1884
Victoria viaduct, river Wear
Monkwearmouth railway bridge, river Wear
Skelton railway viaduct (swing bridge)
Monkwearmouth Railway Bridge is a railway bridge built in 1879, crossing the River Wear at Sunderland and Monkwearmouth. The bridge lies adjacent to and upstream of the Wearmouth Road Bridge.
Monkwearmouth Bridge (left), Wearmouth Bridge (right), 2006
The bridge as built (from The Engineer, 1880). The 1857 reconstruction of the 1796 Wearmouth Bridge is to the rear