3-070-872 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

George Stephenson, Father of Railways: the first railway suspension bridge erected over the Tees, 1881. View of the Stockton Railway Bridge, an iron chain suspension bridge built in 1830, principally to carry coal on the Stockton and Darlington Railway to Port Darlington, later to be renamed Middlesbrough. It was the first suspension bridge built for railway traffic. Illustration published in a special supplement to celebrate the centenary of the birth of British civil engineer and mechanical engineer George Stephenson (1781-1848). From "Illustrated London News", 1881.