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Tower Bridge is a combined bascule and suspension bridge in London, England over the River Thames. It is close to the Tower of London, which gives it its name. It has become an iconic symbol of London. Tower Bridge is owned and maintained by the City Bridge Trust, a charitable trust overseen by the City of London Corporation. The bridge was designed by Sir Horace Jones and Sir John Wolfe-Barry to provide a permanent river crossing without preventing access of ships to the Pool of London wharfs upstream.
The bridge was constructed between 1886 and 1894 with the Gothic style of the finished bridge designed by George D. Stevenson after Jones' death. The bridge is 800 feet (240 m) long with towers 213 feet (65 m) tall. The combined width of the bascules is 200 feet (61 m) and the suspension bridges both sides are each 270 feet (82 m) long. (Full article...)
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William Henry Barlow FRS FRSE FICE MIMechE (10 May 1812 – 12 November 1902) was an English civil engineer of the 19th century, particularly associated with railway engineering projects. Barlow was born in Woolwich, the son of mathematician and physist Professor Peter Barlow, who taught at the Royal Military Academy.
From the mid 1840s until 1857, Barlow was chief engineer for the Midland Railway, after which he set up his on consultancy in London. Between 1862 and 1869 he was the consultant engineer on the Midland Railway's extension from Bedford to London, designing St Pancras station and the 240-foot (73 m) wide cast iron and glass train shed roof over the platforms, the widest unsupported arch in the world at the time.
Barlow was also engineer on the completion of Brunel's Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol and sat on the committee which investigated the causes of the Tay Bridge disaster in 1879. He designed the replacement Tay Bridge completed in 1887. In 1880, he was President of the Institution of Civil Engineers. (Full article...)
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Image 3"Boris Bikes" from the Santander Cycles hire scheme waiting for use at a docking station in Victoria.
Image 455 Broadway, headquarters of the UERL and its successors, is a Grade I listed building in Westminster designed by Charles Holden.
Image 6Sailing ships at West India Docks on the Isle of Dogs in 1810. The docks opened in 1802 and closed in 1980 and have since been redeveloped as the Canary Wharf development.
Image 8The western departures concourse of King's Cross railway station.
Image 9Hornsey Lane Bridge, Archway, more commonly known as "Suicide Bridge".
Image 10Central London Railway poster, published in 1905.
Image 11View of Old London Bridge, circa 1632 by Claude de Jongh.
Image 12London General Omnibus Company B-type bus B340 built in 1911 by AEC. One of a number of London buses purchased by the British military during World War I, this vehicle was operated on the Western Front.
Image 13Archer statue by Eric Aumonier at East Finchley Underground station.
Image 14The New Routemaster built by Wrightbus has three entrances, two staircases and is designed to be reminiscent of the Routemaster.
Image 15Tram 2548 calls at Arena tram stop. This is one of the trams on the Tramlink network centred on Croydon in south London.
Image 16Early style tube roundel in mosaic at Maida Vale Underground station.
Image 17London Underground A60 Stock (left) and 1938 Stock (right) trains showing the difference in the sizes of the two types of rolling stock operated on the system. A60 stock trains operated on the surface and sub-surface sections of the Metropolitan line from 1961 to 2012 and 1938 Stock operated on various deep level tube lines from 1938 to 1988.
Image 18The south façade of King's Cross railway station London terminus of the East Coast Main Line.
Image 20Day (left) and Night (right) sculptures by Sir Jacob Epstein on the London Underground's headquarters at 55 Broadway.
Image 21London Underground Battery-electric locomotive L16 designed to operate over tracks where the traction current is turned off for maintenance work.
Image 22Albert Bridge, opened in 1873, crosses the River Thames between Chelsea and Battersea.
Image 24Qantas Boeing 747-400 about to land at Heathrow Airport, seen beyond the roofs of Myrtle Avenue, Hounslow.
Image 25The newly constructed junction of the Westway ( A40) and the West Cross Route ( A3220) at White City, circa 1970. Continuation of the West Cross Route northwards under the roundabout was cancelled leaving two short unused stubs for the slip roads that would have been provided for traffic joining or leaving the northern section.
Image 26Clapham Common Underground station north and south-bound platforms on the Northern line.
Image 27Original stations on the Metropolitan Railway from The Illustrated London News, 27 December 1862.
Image 28Helicopter landing at London Heliport, a jetty constructed in the River Thames in Battersea.
Image 29Ruislip Lido Railway's 12-inch (300 mm) gauge locomotive "Mad Bess" hauling a passenger train.
Image 30Escalators at Westminster Underground station descend between beams and columns of the station box to reach the deep-level Jubilee line platforms.
Image 32TX4 London Taxi at Heathrow Airport.
Image 33Preserved AEC Routemaster coaches in London Transport Green Line livery.
Image 34A tram of the London United Tramways at Boston Road, Hanwell, circa 1910.
Image 35The original Hampton Court Bridge in 1753, the first of four on the site.
Image 37Southern approach to the Rotherhithe Tunnel that runs under the River Thames in east London between Rotherhithe and Limehouse.
Image 38Vauxhall Bridge across the River Thames opened in 1906 and features sculptures by F. W. Pomeroy.
Image 39Woolwich Ferry boats "John Burns" and "James Newman" on the River Thames, 2012.
Image 40Planes waiting at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 4.
Image 41Hammersmith Bridge, opened in 1887, crosses the River Thames in west London.
Image 42The multi-level junction between the M23 and M25 motorways near Merstham in Surrey. The M23 passes over the M25 with bridges carrying interchange slip roads for the two motorways in between.
Image 44The Circle routes of Victorian London, comprising the Inner Circle, Middle Circle, Outer Circle and Super Outer Circle.
Image 45Arguably the best-preserved disused station building in London, this is the former Alexandra Palace station on the GNR Highgate branch (closed in 1954). It is now in use as a community centre (CUFOS).
Image 47Rail, road and river traffic, seen from the London Eye.
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