Selected: CO. WESTMEATH, ATHLONE, SHANNON BRIDGE
Name: | ATKINSON, CHARLES ROBERT |
Building: | CO. WESTMEATH, ATHLONE, SHANNON BRIDGE |
Date: | 1850 |
Nature: | CRA incharge of construction of bridge to designs by George Willoughby Hemans |
Refs: | Min.Proc.Inst.CE 100 (1889-90, Pt. II), 378 |
Name: | HEMANS, GEORGE WILLOUGHBY |
Building: | CO. WESTMEATH, ATHLONE, SHANNON BRIDGE |
Date: | 1850 |
Nature: | Swing bridge over Shannon for Midland Great Western Railway Co., supported on cast-iron cylinders and erected by Fox, Henderson & Co.Cost: £25,000 under superintendence of Charles Robert Atkinson. Contractor's engineer: J. Millner. Conttractor for stone bridge abutments: Mr Dargan. Sinking of cylinders effected by Potts's pneumatic process. |
Refs: | Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal 13 (Dec 1850), 392; illustrated in Nicholson's Dictionary of…Architecture (1870ca), pl. 164; Min.Proc.Inst.CE 14 (1854-5), 467-8; IB 68, 13 Nov 1926, 848; Min.Proc.Inst.CE 39 (1874-75, Pt. I), 264-266; P.J. Currivan, 'Athlone as a Railway Centre', Journal of the Irish Railway Record Society (E.McP; full ref. not given, nor source of date 1850) |
Name: | FOX, CHARLES (SIR) # |
Building: | CO. WESTMEATH, ATHLONE, SHANNON BRIDGE |
Date: | 1850 |
Nature: | Swing bridge over Shannon for Midland Great Western Railway Co., erected by Fox, Henderson & Co.Cost: £25,000. |
Refs: | Obituary of Fox in Min.Proc.Inst.CE 39 ((1874-75, Pt. I), 265 |