Erecting Bed Stone Course, Pier No 13, [Curzon Bridge construction, Allahabad]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Historical Events The piers had a bed-stone cap of Shiurajpur stone. Subjects = bridge building; civil engineering; Curzon Collection; Public Works Department Location = Allahabad; India; Uttar Pradesh
Erecting Span No 14 on Sullivan Staging, [Curzon Bridge construction, Allahabad]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Historical Events Gales writes (see notes in Introduction): 'The Sulivan trestles, of which the State lines in India keep a stock, are easily erected and dismantled and form a very useful item of plant'. Subjects = bridge building; civil engineering; Curzon Collection; Public Works Dep...
Genre: Historical Events Gale writes (see notes in Introduction): 'The timber staging was made of teak, which was subsequently cut up for bridge sleepers, and the roadway longitudinals and footpaths...The teak trestles were 53 feet high, and weighed 28 tons each...'. Subjects = bridge buildin...
Bag Cofferdam for Founding Pier No 3, [Curzon Bridge construction, Allahabad]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Historical Events Gale writes (see notes in Introduction): 'Where the piers were in a sandbank the water could be reduced by about 3 feet by baling with baskets after the method employed by the natives in irrigating their fields. A sand-bag coffer-dam was used in such cases, the sand-bag...