Inspiring Structure.

The great spidery-looking structure of the viaduct is only a link in the line, but it is an engineering work which compels admiration, if not awe.

Seen from the road crossing down stream the huge engineering achievement robs the shaggy gorge of its dignity. It is only when nearing the viaduct from below that the great gash worn by the river in the sandstone during the centuries assumes its true proportions, and the eye, taking in the height of the structure, drives home to the mind the relative width of the bridged chasm. Wearing its bright reddish preliminary coat for the most part, with a few girders painted the final chocolate colour, the viaduct strikes the visitor's attention immediately, and the suddenness with which ++ springs into view and rivets the attention from either road or rail is arresting. To the rail traveller it is merely a continuation of the track, but the gorge below gives it its true importance. Looking up from underneath through the maze of girders and braces, he planks of the windscreen on the parapet look like a fringe of stubble, and everybody who walks up the riverbed to look upwards “stays put” until a stiff neck ends his absorption.