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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)  BJR73.jpg (taken 9.8.2005) |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Dandrymire Viaduct |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "DANDRYMIRE VIADUCT / / HAWES ROAD / GARSDALE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484490 / SD7932992322" |
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| 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)." |
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| hearsay:- |
The mire swallowed all attempts to raise an embankment, so a viaduct had to be built
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| 12 arches, 50 feet high, 227 yards long. |
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| Built 1873-75. |
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