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Knapsack Gully Viaduct
1880
Glass plate negative
NSW State Archives
NRS 4481 SH1685
(left)
Old Bridge, Lapstone Hill
1880
Glass plate negative
NSW State Archives
NRS 4481 SH1688
Buoyed by advancements in technology, NSW
embarked on a ‘spirited’ program of public
works in the second half of the 19th Century.
Engineers cut and tunnelled ranges, and bridged
valleys to access and link once-impassable lands
in the Colony’s north, west and south. Driven by
railway construction, this complex and largescale endeavour has been described as the
‘new imperialism’.
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