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| Kent Viaduct, Arnside | ||
| Kent Viaduct | ||
| site name:- | Ulverstone and Lancaster Railway | |
| site name:- | Kent, River | |
| locality:- | Kent Estuary | |
| civil parish:- | Arnside (formerly Westmorland) | |
| civil parish:- | Meathop and Ulpha (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | railway viaduct | |
| locality type:- | viaduct | |
| coordinates:- | SD452792 | |
| coordinates:- | SD456791 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD4579 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD47 | |
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 BQB30.jpg From the east shore of the estuary. (taken 6.2.2009)  BQB31.jpg (taken 6.2.2009) |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Waugh 1860 placename:- Kent Viaduct |
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| source data:- | Print, engraving, Kent Viaduct, the Ulverstone and Lancaster Railway over the River
Kent, Arnside, Lancashire, drawn by T H Wilson, engraved by Swain, published by Alexander
Ireland and Co, 22 Market Street, Manchester, 1860. click to enlargeWU0102.jpg On p.10 of Over Sands to the Lakes, by Edwin Waugh. printed at bottom left:- "THW" printed at bottom right, centre:- "SWAIN Sc / KENT VIADUCT" item:- Armitt Library : A1082.2 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Barber 1873 |
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| source data:- | Print, ?colour lithograph, Kent Viaduct, published by The Graphotyping Co, 7 Garrick
Street and Simpkin, Marshall and Co, Stationers' Hall Court, London, and by J Atkinson,
King Street, Ulverston, Cumberland, about 1873. click to enlargeBB1E01.jpg The view is from the hill above Arnside village; the tide is in and a two masted sailing ship is coasting up the estuary, a mixed train of coaches and wagons is on the viaduct heading towards Arnside on the Ulverstone and Lancaster Railway. "KENT VIADUCT" item:- JandMN : 69.2 Image © see bottom of page |
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 BJR06.jpg From the east shore of the estuary. (taken 2.8.2005)  BQB29.jpg From the east shore of the estuary. (taken 6.2.2009)  BQB32.jpg View N. (taken 6.2.2009)  BQB33.jpg View S. (taken 6.2.2009)  CDA65.jpg (taken 15.5.2015)  Click to enlarge BTZ83.jpg (taken 8.2.2011)  Click to enlarge BVP30.jpg (taken 4.11.2011) |
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| hearsay:- |
Cast iron pillars, 5600 yards long, with an opening span for shipping till 1860s.
Clad in stone about 1915. |
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| Designed by James Brunlees, built 1856-57. |
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| hearsay:- |
A south westerly gale, 27 February 1903, brought down telegraph wires at the west
end of the viaduct which knocked off the locomotive headlamp. It took twenty minutes
to cut the train free. It continued and ran into more trouble on the Leven Viaduct. |
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