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{{Infobox bridge
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|name=Lambley Viaduct
|county=Northumberland
|picture=South Tyne Lambley Viaduct 6173.JPG
|picture caption=Lambley Viaduct
|os grid ref=NY675584
|latitude=54.919
|longitude=-2.5085
|carries=Cycle route and footpath
|crosses=River South Tyne
|ownership=
|maint=
|architect=
|design=
|material=Stone
|length=853 feet
|width=11 feet
|height=At least 108 feet
|mainspan=
|spans=9
|pierswater=3
|built=1852
}}
'''Lambley Viaduct''' is a stone bridge across the [[River Tyne|River South Tyne]] at [[Lambley, Northumberland|Lambley]] in [[Northumberland]]. Formerly a railway bridge, it remains open to pedestrians but one end of the viaduct has been fenced off.
 
The viaduct is a Grade II listed structure.<ref name=nhle>{{NHLE|1042918|Labey Viaduct|grade=II}}</ref>
 
==History==
[[File:Lambley viaduct and Metro Cammell dmu.jpg|left|thumb|200px|A train crossing the viaduct in September 1973]]
Lambley viaduct crosses the [[River Tyne|River South Tyne]] as a series of elegant stone arches. More than 850 feet long, it once carried the [[Haltwhistle]] to [[Alston, Cumberland|Alston]] railway. The railway, which was opened in 1852 to haul coal and lead from the Alston mines, closed in 1976, and the viaduct was allowed to decay.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bridgesonthetyne.co.uk/lambrw.html |title=River South Tyne - Lambley Viaduct |publisher=Bridges on the Tyne |access-date=2016-01-21 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> In 1991 the British Rail Property Board agreed to repair the viaduct and hand it over to the North Pennine Heritage Trust which would maintain it in the future; however the Trust went into administration in 2011.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thejournal.co.uk/news/north-east-news/north-pennines-heritage-trust-collapses-4423229 |title=North Pennines Heritage Trust collapses|date=2011-09-10|newspaper=|The Journal |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |publisher=Trinity Mirror |access-date=2016-01-21 |quote=The trust, with 400 members and a team of volunteers, also owns Alston Arches and the Lambley Viaduct at Haltwhistle.}}</ref>
 
The viaduct was probably designed by George Barclay Bruce,<ref name=nhle /> a Victorian engineer who was involved in the Alston line before leaving for India to pioneer railway construction there. It is a particularly elegant example of Victorian engineering: the river is crossed by nine arches each 56 feet wide which support a deck at least 108 feet above the river<ref name=nhle /> but, as it carried a single rail track, only 11 feet wide. The piers to the arches are built of massive rough-faced stones each weighing up to 1,100 lb, with similar-sized stones in ashlar to the main arch voussoirs. The spandrels and piers to the 20-foot wide approach arches are built of coursed rubble masonry.<ref name=ElaineRigby>{{cite web |title=Lambley Viaduct |url=http://freespace.virgin.net/elaine.rigby/lambley.htm |website=Blacket-Ord Consulting Engineers |access-date=2008-12-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021107003743/http://freespace.virgin.net/elaine.rigby/lambley.htm |archive-date=2002-11-07}}</ref>
 
One end of the viaduct has been fenced off, after the path was diverted in 2004 to pass further away from Lambley railway station, which is now a private house.<ref name=ElaineRigby/>
 
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