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Drawing, Gelt Bridge, Newcastle and Carlisle Railway,
Hayton, Cumberland, by John Wilson Carmichael, 1835.
Scene of construction workers building a viaduct above a
river; wooden scaffolds support two of the arches and
provide a platform halfway up the structure. To left of
foreground, two figures converse beside a pile of blocks of
masonry. A small stone building and a pile of uncut logs
stand beside the river, the far bank of which is heavily
wooded.
Carmichael executed 22 pencil drawings of the construction
of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway at the suggestion of
the Rail Company.
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