View from above Kilsby Tunnel

Method Lithograph with tint stone and hand colour
Artist By and after John Cooke Bourne
Published Published 1839 Ackerman & Co. and John Cooke Bourne
Dimensions Image 223 x 335, Pl > 250 x 335 mm
Notes Plate 32 of Bourne's Drawings of the London & Birmingham Railway, London, Bourne et al., 1839 (Abbey Life 401). Showing a temporary railway ascending the hill to give access to the builders of the ventilation works. The one mile long Kilsby tunnel was the only one on the northern section of the line and was built because the Northamptonshire hills formed a barrier across almost all conceivable routes.
Framing unmounted
Price £280.00
Stock ID 7853

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