3-052-788 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The new dock from the hotel at Holyhead, [Wales], 1880. Facilities including '...separate and distinct passenger platforms, quay walls, goods sheds, and sidings, respectively, for the export and import traffic of the harbour, and for the up and down traffic of the railway. The water area of the old harbour has been increased from ten acres and a quarter to twenty-four acres, with a uniform depth of 13 ft. at ebb and 30 ft. at flood of spring tides, and of 18 ft. and 22 ft. respectively at neaps. The length of the quay has been increased to 4000 ft., and there are upwards of fifteen miles of sidings. An additional goods shed, 750 ft. in length, has been constructed on the new quay. The formerly existing graving dock being inadequate for the company's steamers, a new one has been built, with a length of 390 ft...The entire work, which will cost nearly half a million sterling, has been carried out by Messrs. Scott and Edwards, the contractors, under the superintendence of Mr. William Adams, resident engineer...The works now finished are those for the accommodation of the railway company's steamers plying to Kingstown for Dublin'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.