River Tawe Navigation accessed by world’s first railway tunnel of 1760 downloadable digital image

Downloadable digital image of watercolour & gouache painted reconstruction of Chauncy Townsend’s coal warehouse on a wharf at Landore of 1760. It was approached by a tunnel that may be the first built at an intermediate point on a surface railway. The line was disused by the time the Swansea Canal was built but the canal bridge Pont Lewis Bach of 1794-96 was designated for the use of any possible rebuilding of the line under the terms of the Swansea Canal’s authorising Act of Parliament. Copyright artwork by Stephen Hughes. For personal use. For other uses contact the artist: Send Message.