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RAILWAY BRIDGE DESIGNED BY I.K.BRUNEL IN MAIDENHEAD, ENGLAND
Maidenhead Viaduct; The Sounding Arch; Sounding arch; Sounding Arch; Maidenhead railway bridge; Maidenhead viaduct
  • The bridge after electrification gantries were added
  • The echoing 'Sounding Arch' from the bank. The chamfered original centre section can be seen.
  • painting]] from 1844

high-sounding      
You can use high-sounding to describe language and ideas which seem very grand and important, especially when you think they are not really important.
...high-sounding decrees designed to impress foreigners and attract foreign capital.
ADJ: usu ADJ n [disapproval]
High-sounding      
·adj Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
sounding line         
  • Lead and line sounding
  • Edward Massey's sounding machine
  • Sounding leads
METHOD OF MEASURING THE DEPTH OF A BODY OF WATER
Sounding line; Lead line (nautical); Depth Sounding; Sounding weight; Sounded; Sounding lead; Nautical soundings; Sounding leads; Sounding rod; Lead and line sounding; Line sounding; Lead sounding; By the mark twain; By the mark twain!; Mark twain (depth sounding)
¦ noun a weighted line used to measure the depth of water under a boat.

Wikipedia

Maidenhead Railway Bridge

Maidenhead Railway Bridge, also known as Maidenhead Viaduct and The Sounding Arch, carries the Great Western Main Line (GWML) over the River Thames between Maidenhead, Berkshire and Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England. It is a single structure of two tall wide red brick arches buttressed by two over-land smaller arches. It crosses the river on the Maidenhead-Bray Reach which is between Boulter's Lock and Bray Lock and is near-centrally rooted in the downstream end of a very small island.

The Maidenhead Bridge was designed by the Great Western Railway Company's engineer, the noted mechanical and civil engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and it was completed in 1838, but not brought into use until 1 July 1839. While it was being constructed, the innovative low-rise arches of the structure attracted considerable criticism and controversy surrounding their alleged lack of stability; as a result, the centring for the arches was left in place until its destruction during a heavy storm in late 1839, yet the arches stayed up, effectively vindicating Brunel's design. During 1861, dual-gauge track was installed across the structure, allowing both broad gauge and standard gauge services to cross it. During the late 1890s, the bridge was widened on either side to allow the structure to carry an arrangement of four standard gauge tracks, a task which was supervised by the civil engineer Sir John Fowler, who placed a high level of importance upon preserving the bridge's original design and appearance.

Today, the Maidenhead Bridge forms a key crossing along the eastern section of the Great Western Main Line, allowing trains to proceed to and from the line's terminus in the capital, London Paddington station. During the 2010s, the tracks across the structure were provisioned with overhead line equipment and associated infrastructure as to allow electric traction to use the route. The Maidenhead Bridge features in Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway, painted by J. M. W. Turner during 1844 and now in the National Gallery, London. It is approximate to the finish line of an annual day of rowing races, known as the Maidenhead Regatta. The Thames towpath passes directly under the right-hand arch (facing upstream), which is also known as the Sounding Arch as a result of its spectacular echo. During July 2012, the Maidenhead Railway Bridge was upgraded to a Grade I listed structure in light of its historical importance; to this day, the arches of the structure remain the flattest to have ever been constructed.

Examples of use of high-sounding
1. "As much as we want to cover it in ideology and high–sounding philosophy, you could tell," Mburu said.
2. Yes, each year the leaders issue lengthy communiques _ joint statements filled with high–sounding rhetoric about the pressing problems of the day.
3. Yes, each year the leaders issue lengthy communiques – joint statements filled with high–sounding rhetoric about the pressing problems of the day.
4. The imperialists and their trumpeters run the whole gamut of high–sounding and sugar–coated words to propagandize the "superiority" of capitalism and spread the bourgeois way of life.
5. Instead of high–sounding denunciations of "barbaric" murderers, ordinary Brits would prefer clear signs that their government is determined to defend them effectively against future attacks and to punish the perpetrators for past ones.