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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


photograph
BQB30.jpg  From the east shore of the estuary.
(taken 6.2.2009)  
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BQB31.jpg (taken 6.2.2009)  

evidence:-   old print:- Waugh 1860
placename:-  Kent Viaduct
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.
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WU0102.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

evidence:-   old print:- Barber 1873
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.
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BB1E01.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


photograph
BJR06.jpg  From the east shore of the estuary.
(taken 2.8.2005)  
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BQB29.jpg  From the east shore of the estuary.
(taken 6.2.2009)  
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BQB32.jpg  View N.
(taken 6.2.2009)  
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BQB33.jpg  View S.
(taken 6.2.2009)  
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CDA65.jpg (taken 15.5.2015)  
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BTZ83.jpg (taken 8.2.2011)  
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BVP30.jpg (taken 4.11.2011)  

hearsay:-  
Cast iron pillars, 5600 yards long, with an opening span for shipping till 1860s. Clad in stone about 1915.
Designed by James Brunlees, built 1856-57.

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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