CRUMLIN VIADUCT HISTORY Steam Railway History NEW South Wales Rail NA&HR

Product Information\n\nCrumlin Viaduct by Gordon Wood Hardback\n\nClick on the Image to Enlarge zoom_in\n\nDESCRIPTION\n\nThis is the story of a brilliant but flawed engineer, who built a brilliant but flawed bridge. Thomas W. Kennard is both the hero and villain of this book, a man who, in 1852 \uFFFD just over two decades after the Rainhill Trials \uFFFD accepted a verbal contract from the Newport, Abergavenny & Hereford Railway Company to build an enormous viaduct 1,500 feet long and rising up to 200 feet above the Ebbw Valley. Constructed almost entirely of iron and completed in 1857, the finished viaduct was a thing of grace and beauty, and the pride of the Ebbw and Kendon valleys which it spanned. Kennard, however, had proved obstructive and uncommunicative during the construction, constantly running short of money and pressurising the company for extra payments. Deliveries were late, record and stock keeping was poor and the lack of a written contract \uFFFD one was only dm