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BRITISH RAILWAYS. WESTERN REGION. A Cornish express crossing the famous Royal Albert Bridge, Saltash, which spans the Tamar estuary to link Devon and Cornwall. It was Brunel's final and greatest engineering feat. Each of the two main spans is 455 ft. in length with long approach arches.

BRITISH RAILWAYS. WESTERN REGION. A Cornish express crossing the famous Royal Albert Bridge, Saltash, which spans the Tamar estuary to link Devon and Cornwall. It was Brunel's final and greatest engineering feat. Each of the two main spans is 455 ft. in length with long approach arches.

(British, founded in 1880)
Medium/TechniqueColor halftone lithograph on card stock.
DimensionsHorizontal: 8.9 x 14 cm (3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)
Credit LineLeonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive—Gift of Leonard A. Lauder
Accession number2015.6400
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ClassificationsPostcards
InscriptionsYes
ProvenanceBetween 1950 and 2015, acquired by Leonard A. Lauder, New York, from various postcard dealers in Europe and the United States; 2015, gift of Leonard A. Lauder to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 24, 2015)