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Dandry Mire Viaduct, Garsdale
Dandry Mire Viaduct
site name:-   Settle and Carlisle Railway
locality:-   Dandry Mire
civil parish:-   Garsdale (formerly Yorkshire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway viaduct
locality type:-   viaduct
coordinates:-   SD79279220
coordinates:-   SD79369238
1Km square:-   SD7992
10Km square:-   SD79


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BXE74.jpg (taken 28.8.2012)  
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BJR73.jpg (taken 9.8.2005)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Dandrymire Viaduct
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"DANDRYMIRE VIADUCT / / HAWES ROAD / GARSDALE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484490 / SD7932992322"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Railway viaduct carrying Settle to Carlisle railway line over Dandry Mire. 1869-75, for the Midland Railway Company; company architect JH Sanders, chief engineer JS Crossley, resident engineer J Underwood. Coursed sandstone. Approx. 200m long, running north-south and slightly curved. Twelve segmental arches in 3 groups of 4, springing from rectangular piers with broader pilastered piers between the groups and at each end. Forms group with railway bridge approx. 200m north (qv)."

hearsay:-  
The mire swallowed all attempts to raise an embankment, so a viaduct had to be built instead.
12 arches, 50 feet high, 227 yards long.
Built 1873-75.

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