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This viaduct was completed in 1878, and is 1.166 km in length - the longest in Britain. There are 82 arches of 12 metres each, and the height is up to 20 metres. The total number of bricks used is estimated at 30,000,000.
WSR yesterday. It's massive. All sorts - Americana, vintage British vehicles, motorbikes, pushbikes, traction engines, stationary engines, steam locomotives, WWII military vehicles, earth moving vehicles, trucks, excavators, diggers, commercials, buses. You name it, it's there. Also a very good market & engineers jumble.
This viaduct was completed in 1878, and is 1.166 km in length - the longest in Britain. There are 82 arches of 12 metres each, and the height is up to 20 metres. The total number of bricks used is estimated at 30,000,000.
GBRf Class 66/7 No. 66724 Drax Power Station crosses the Welland Viaduct at Harringworth with 6F78, the 14:22 Tunstead Sidings – Wellingborough loaded JNA wagons on 20th April 2022.
Because of a band engagement I couldn't sotp long at the NVR, but grabbed this landscape from the A47 near Tixover, as it looks out towards the viaduct at Harringworth. Thia is the wide angle, I like the sky, but will post a 70mm shot sometime which shows up the distance detail
1.166 km long x 82 arches x 40 feet (12 m) spans. Built by Lucas and Aird Completed 1878. Longest masonry viaduct across a valley in Britain Grade II listed
welland viaduct-The viaduct is 1,275 yards (1.166 km) long and has 82 arches, each with a 40 feet (12 m) span. It is the longest masonry viaduct across a valley in the United Kingdom.
The Welland viaduct crosses the River Welland and is situated between Rutland and Northamptonshire at Harrington and Seaton, hence it is also known as both the Harrington and Seaton viaduct.
It was built between 1876 - 1878 for Midland Railway. It's 1,275 yards long and has 82 arches which are 40ft apart in places, and up to 70ft high. 30,000000 bricks were used, together with stone. 3,000 navvies worked on it. The contractors were paid £750 a square mile, which would be around £12, 000 today. It's now mainly used for freight and the odd steam train trip. It's Grade II listed.
Taken from the Harrington side There are 59 arches in Northants.
Grade II* listed historic building originally constructed in the mid-1700's as a house.
"Spalding /ˈspɒldɪŋ / is a market town with a population of 28,722 at the 2011 census, on the River Welland in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. Little London is a hamlet directly south of Spalding on the B1172, whilst Pinchbeck, a village to the north, is part of the built-up area.
The town was well known for the annual Spalding Flower Parade, held from 1959 to 2013. The parade celebrated the region's vast tulip production and the cultural links between the Fens and the landscape and people of South Holland. At one time, it attracted crowds of more than 100,000. Since 2002 the town has held an annual Pumpkin Festival in October.
Archaeological excavations at Wygate Park in Spalding have shown that there has been occupation in this area from at least the Roman period, when this part of Lincolnshire was used for the production of salt. It was a coastal siltland. At Wygate Park salt-making seems to have come to an end by the mid-7th century BC; climatic change and flooding may have made such activities difficult, causing the practice to die out.
The settlement's name is derived from an Anglian tribe, the Spaldingas, who settled in the area during the 6th century. They may have retained their administrative independence within the Kingdom of Mercia into the late 9th century, when Stamford became one of the Five Boroughs of the East Midlands under Danish control after years of invasion and occupation." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
Now on Instagram.
The Captain Henry Jackman is an Equinox Class, dry bulk carrier ship of the Algoma Central Corporation.
Looking up into the ringing chamber of the tower built under architect J W Hugall of Oxford, and the foundation stone was laid on St. James' Day, July 25th 1873 . It was consecrated on 2nd April 1875. . - Church of St James, Welland, Worcestershire
Framed under an old signal bridge, TE11 makes the trip back along the Hamilton Sub after interchanging with CN at their Southern Yard.
The track that TE11 has just crested disappears as it slopes down into a massive cut required for the rail tunnel under the Welland Canal.
To the right is Rusholme Siding and in the immediate foreground is the connecting track to Trillium's Cayuga Spur and Feeder Yard. If you look closely Trillium's St Catharines Job with TRRY 1859 can be seen on a bridge in the distance, on their way back to Feeder.