![NEWCASTLE-CARLISLE RAILWAY -- THOMPSON, Benjamin. A Plan and Section of an intended Iron Railway or Tram Road from the town and county of Newcastle upon Tyne to the canal basin near to the city of Carlisle in the county of Cumberland with certain branches therefrom. [Newcastle:] November 1825. Manuscript map in pen and ink and watercolour, 1700 x 240mm. overall. The map covering the course of the tram way from Newcastle to Carlisle, marking district boundaries, land plots and principal buildings. (Some light spotting and staining.) Mounted on cloth, green silk edging, mounted on wooden rollers (top left-hand edge partially detached).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CSK/2014_CSK_05388_0194_000(newcastle-carlisle_railway_--_thompson_benjamin_a_plan_and_section_of035337).jpg?w=1)
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NEWCASTLE-CARLISLE RAILWAY -- THOMPSON, Benjamin. A Plan and Section of an intended Iron Railway or Tram Road from the town and county of Newcastle upon Tyne to the canal basin near to the city of Carlisle in the county of Cumberland with certain branches therefrom. [Newcastle:] November 1825. Manuscript map in pen and ink and watercolour, 1700 x 240mm. overall. The map covering the course of the tram way from Newcastle to Carlisle, marking district boundaries, land plots and principal buildings. (Some light spotting and staining.) Mounted on cloth, green silk edging, mounted on wooden rollers (top left-hand edge partially detached).
ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT SURVEY MAP OF THE FIRST RAILWAY TO CROSS BRITAIN, the third to be built in Britain after Stockton-Darlington 1825 and Liverpool-Manchester 1830. Originally conceived as a horse-drawn waggon way, the Newcastle and Carlisle railway was backed by the influential gentry of Newcastle. Benjamin Thompson, a mining railway engineer and pit owner, became involved, and a first survey of his proposed route was started in June 1825. The present lot is the original manuscript survey map completed in November that same year. Due to problems with errors on the levels and difficulties of certain landowners, construction did not begin until March 1830, with the first section opening on 9 March 1835, finally linking to Carlisle in June 1839. Hand-coloured Lithographed plans of the route were published in 1828 (see Christie's 16 November 2005, lot 223). Benjamin Thompson went on to establish an ironworks at Wylarn, and built several locomotives.
ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT SURVEY MAP OF THE FIRST RAILWAY TO CROSS BRITAIN, the third to be built in Britain after Stockton-Darlington 1825 and Liverpool-Manchester 1830. Originally conceived as a horse-drawn waggon way, the Newcastle and Carlisle railway was backed by the influential gentry of Newcastle. Benjamin Thompson, a mining railway engineer and pit owner, became involved, and a first survey of his proposed route was started in June 1825. The present lot is the original manuscript survey map completed in November that same year. Due to problems with errors on the levels and difficulties of certain landowners, construction did not begin until March 1830, with the first section opening on 9 March 1835, finally linking to Carlisle in June 1839. Hand-coloured Lithographed plans of the route were published in 1828 (see Christie's 16 November 2005, lot 223). Benjamin Thompson went on to establish an ironworks at Wylarn, and built several locomotives.
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