Smardale Viaduct
| Smardale Viaduct | |
| Westmorland | |
|---|---|
 The Smardale Viaduct | |
| Location | |
| Type: | Railway viaduct |
| Carrying: | Settle–Carlisle line |
| Crossing: | Scandal Beck |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NY733082 |
| Location: | 54°28’7"N, 2°24’48"W |
| Structure | |
| Length: | 710 feet |
| Type: | Railway viaduct |
| History | |
| Built 1870-1875 | |
| Information | |
Smardale Viaduct is a Victorian railway viaduct which carries the Settle to Carlisle Railway Line across the Scandal Beck in Westmorland. It was built for the Midland railway by the contractors Benton & Woodiwiss.
The viaduct is 710 feet long and 130 feet high; the highest on the line. Over 60,000 tons of stone were used in its construction.[1] Local limestone was used for its construction, the arch quoins were of millstone grit. Two of the twelve piers – the fourth and the tenth are of considerably heavier construction.
The bridge opened in August 1875 having taken 5 years to construct, it crosses both Scandal Beck and the former Stainmore railway line.[2][3]
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References
- ↑ Frederick Smeeton Williams (1888), "VII. Viaducts", Our Iron Roads: their history, construction and administration, pp. 183–185, https://archive.org/stream/ourironroadsthei00willrich#page/182/mode/1up
- ↑ Rennison, Robert William (1996), Civil engineering heritage: Northern England, "Smardale Viaduct" , pp.111–112
- ↑ "Smardale Viaduct", www.engineering-timelines.com, http://www.engineering-timelines.com/scripts/engineeringItem.asp?id=544