Tunnels and tunnel fronts - turnpike road bridges - occupation bridges in embankments and in cuttings - ornamental bridges, with various designs for iron rails and framing - viaducts of several descriptions - retaining walls - culverts - sidings - cuttings and embankments - permanent ways - chairs, blocks, & c. - cuttings in rock, and undersetting - aqueducts - turn-tables - cranes, and railway depots, with sheds, & c. on the several railways, canals, and other public works throughout the kingdom : as the London and Birmingham - Great Western - Greenwich - Midland Counties - North Union - Leeds and Selby - Grand Junction - Slamannan, and Wishaw and Coltness railways; and the elegant aqueduct of the Lancaster canal, over the river lune...
A railway engineering atlas compiled by Samuel Charles Brees and published by John Williams in 1838, offering engineers and contractors plates of tunnels, bridges, viaducts and other works on British railways and canals. The plates are precise measured elevations, plans and sections drawn in fine black line on pale paper, showing arch spacing, abutments, wing walls and track layouts that a designer could use for structural rhythm and linear diagrams.
