EWS 66074 Over Smardale Viaduct
Photographed in late afternoon sunshine EWS 66074 is captured a couple of miles north of Kirkby Stephen as it crosses the famous viaduct over Scandal Beck. Built entirely of local grey limestone the viaduct took five years to build with the last stone being laid by Mrs. Agnes Crossley, wife of the Midland Railway engineer on June 8 1875. The structure's twelve spans are 237 yards long and 130 feet high at their highest point and its piers are unique in so far as they are embedded 45 feet into red shale as no solid rock existed at the site. The disused North Eastern Railway, formally the South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway line linking Darlington and Tebay passed under the viaduct.
EWS 66074 Over Smardale Viaduct
Photographed in late afternoon sunshine EWS 66074 is captured a couple of miles north of Kirkby Stephen as it crosses the famous viaduct over Scandal Beck. Built entirely of local grey limestone the viaduct took five years to build with the last stone being laid by Mrs. Agnes Crossley, wife of the Midland Railway engineer on June 8 1875. The structure's twelve spans are 237 yards long and 130 feet high at their highest point and its piers are unique in so far as they are embedded 45 feet into red shale as no solid rock existed at the site. The disused North Eastern Railway, formally the South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway line linking Darlington and Tebay passed under the viaduct.