Smardale Viaduct, Crosby Garrett | ||
Smardale Viaduct | ||
site name:- | Settle and Carlisle Railway | |
site name:- | Scandal Beck | |
civil parish:- | Crosby Garrett (formerly Westmorland) | |
civil parish:- | Waitby (formerly Westmorland) | |
county:- | Cumbria | |
locality type:- | railway viaduct | |
locality type:- | viaduct | |
coordinates:- | NY73310821 | |
1Km square:- | NY7308 | |
10Km square:- | NY70 | |
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BPA91.jpg (taken 18.4.2008) |
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hearsay:- |
13 arches, 131 feet high, 237 yards long. |
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Built 1870-75. The valley bed was not rock as expected; the piers go down through
45 feet of clay to find a footing. |
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