[Closed] Viaducts near you...

After my rant the other day about my mrs which of course I was totally being a d 1ck

Don't back down now - that's not the STW way.

Nice arches - I guess this thread is exactly what it says on the tin, when I was expecting something different.

Stourbridge Viaduct

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balcombe
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i grew up in the village next to this one:
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(Catesby)

i do like a nice viaduct.

This is up the valley from me, Hewenden Viaduct, Cullingworth, West Yorks.
Was unused and fenced off when I was a kid. Now part of a cycle path.

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Hockley/Winchester, recently restored, you can walk/cycle along it as part of NCN23

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There's here, just up the road from where I was raised.

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There's an annual beer festival right next door to it and piddling over the edge is still a rite of passage.

[url= http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/tom-smith-smashes-lockwood-viaduct-5748560 ]Local challenge[/url] (Lockwood nr Huddersfield). That's not me.

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Nine Arches a couple of miles from my house.

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Arten Gill viaduct, Yorkshire Dales, is my nearest and you can see the bit of bumpy bridleway I ride regularly on the right side of the valley...

Newton Cap Viaduct, County Durham

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It's not as scenic as the ones above but this is local to me:

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Stockport Viaduct, the largest brick built viaduct in Europe, 27 arches. When it was built it was the biggest one in the world. But it's not as scenic as my favourite one of Glenfinnan (the one used in one of the Harry Potter films):

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Near(ish); Holborn Viaduct:

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Not near me, but a fave; Lambley Viaduct in Northumberland:

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Landore Viaduct, Swansea.

Not at all scenic, but designed by Brunel (at least part of it was) and the hill in the background has superb MTB tracks.

This is the Armsgrove Viaduct which passes above the Wayoh Reaservoir in Bolton. The viaduct carries the Bolton to Blackburn Railway and was constructed in 1847 / 1848.

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This one is nowhere near me, in fact its in France, but it is Roman and mighty impressive...

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There's half of one near me:

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Leaderfoot Viaduct - Scottish Borders

Two for the price of one (viaduct and an aquaduct) at Chirk 30 mins from me.
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clifton, HTN country, ride under it on my commute
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Grew up about a mile from this one, [url= http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/55689/details/leaderfoot+viaduct/ ]Leaderfoot Viaduct[/url]

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EDIT - Beaten to it by tiggs121. It is a bonnie bridge though and if this is a competition, it's winning so far 🙂

sharkbait: there's a layout very similar to that near me at Marple.

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Crosses the River Goyt. The aqueduct is actually far nicer looking than the viaduct which came much later (aqueduct is 1800).

Pensford (near Bristol)

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Well I Was going to post the Stockport beast but I was beaten to it.

Then I was going to post the Goyt valley dual-track combo but I was beaten to it.

So I'll post a picture of the one phyically closest to me now:

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Rathdrum Viaduct, Co wicklow, small but elegant.

Anker Viaduct aka 'The Arches' in Tamworth. 19 arches spanning the River Anker in Tamworth at a height of forty five feet, covering a distance of four hundred and seventeen feet.

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(Pics courtesy of [url= http://chriscross-thebooktrunk.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/underneath-arches.html ]Christine Harding[/url])

I've ridden under the one in Finchley Central twice a day for many years. It's cool how the tube goes across it.

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a few weeks back I caught the train out of Melbourne then rode south to the coast taking in the Camperdown - Timboon Railtrail

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I suspect some guy from local tourist office had job of putting that old trolley cart there and probably didn't make the 10km or so back to the nearest dirt road

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a fully restored trestle bridge near Timboon, Vic
Have to add that just up the road from where live commuter trains cross something similar (and I'd be crossing myself if I did the journey every day)

All the ones I was going to post have been posted. 🙁

damitamit - Member

I've ridden under the one in Finchley Central twice a day for many years. It's cool how the tube goes across it.

I also drive under it a fair few times a week and occasionally go on the train above but luckily the misery(Northern) line is not my local line anymore I've moved up to the Piccalilli (Piccadilly )line far more sensible

sort of got the ugliest of the ugly down the canal from us

Brunels 3 bridges a road on top of a canal on top a train track, madness!

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Possibly one of the most recognisable viaducts in the UK - grew up just down the road from there. And I *never* got up to mischief throwing things from it, oh no.

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johndoh - Member

Possibly one of the most recognisable viaducts in the UK - grew up just down the road from there. And I *never* got up to mischief throwing things from it, oh no.

Is it Pontrhydyfen viaduct? 😀 Sorry Johndoh, I don't know where that is?

Oh by the way, Pontrhydyfen Viaduct, just down the road from Afan:

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The Glenfinnan Viaduct is on my signalling panel at work, get a lot of reports from drivers about tourists standing on the track taking photos!

Quality thread!

One just near me. Not very impressive unfortuantely.

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Did I miss a good rant? (Off to check OPs previous posts...) Nice viaducts btw.

I have this beauty on some of my training routes.

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Two viaducts joined side by side
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whilst riding back from seeing this one
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Tinsley opened in 1968 the year I was born

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Another from a recent trip to wales

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Tracey - Member

Tinsley opened in 1968 the year I was born

and they've been (re)building it ever since...

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i work near this beauty:

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(Catcliffe)

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Im in Vienna but this is quite close. There's a bike park in summer an skiing in winter. Perfect.

Glen Ogle
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Just down the road from me:

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Fun to ride over the right hand bridge:

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View from my office window:

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Haversham viaduct nr Milton Keynes about half a mile away from me.

Originally opened in 1838 and cost £30'000. Spans the river Ouse.

Can't post a pic as I'm on my phone, but Sankey viaduct near Earlstown.

Probably the first railway viaduct in the country and I'm (my employers) are in the process of bring sodding great steel structures to it in order to electrify the line

damitamit - where is that....?

Its Barmouth isnt it?

First concrete poured viaduct in UK apparently.
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Copley viaduct today catching the sun nicely for the whole ride, a regular route which I am now calling The Rifle Run.

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speckledbob - Member

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Arthington Viaduct on Leeds to Harrogate line - a mile or so from where I grew up.

I've rode across the Arthington viaduct!!!!

Your photo captures the new pavilion building too. A Great place to drink beer whilst watching others run around like madmen

This is from the canal today. The new pavillion is great. I'll definitely try it next summer.

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Neidpath viaduct

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Not near me but in the area I work in and spent 2 months in summer working in its shadow.

Viaduct and more impressive aqueduct on the west side of Linlithgow, which will be incorporated into my ride too thanks to this three. Sorry no photos just now.

This is my turning point for a 10km run, its exactly 3.1 miles from my house. 😀
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Its had modern brickwork done to strengthen it unfortunately, and it looks crap over the road, but the rest of the viaduct is stunning.
It cuts a line between Edinburgh and West lothian.

St Ives in Cambs

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One is an aquaduct (pontycycyllte)
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DavidTaylforth, that's Ulverston/Plumpton innit? We used to jump off that as kids, how we survived childhood I'll never know.

Here's a little one, near San Sebastian. Probably rideable if you're not scared of heights like I am, although I have ended up riding onto it when not concentrating on the trail.

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And this one, you ride on top of or beside the pipe for about 10km, hardly descending but utterly engaging with some quite nasty exposure.

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damitamit - where is that....?

Barmouth. I believe its on the Bryan Chapman 600k route.

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Arthington, between Leeds & Harrogate. Fairly near me.

I've ridden across Hewenden viaduct, near Cullingworth

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this one's in Leeds

Dowley Gap Aqueduct on the Leeds-Liverpool canal near Bingley:
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and this one's not really near me but I did take the picture. Ribblehead:
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johndoh:

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I was going to ask if this was Knaresborough, but the clue's in the URL

Often ride under this one in Eynsford:

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And this one is less than 1k away:

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The pub is 'optional'. 🙂

I know the last 2 very well , just down the road from me .

But the Millau viaduc is my favourite , being my home town . Wasnt there when i was growing up but always a pleasure to see it .

Calstock, on the Devon & Cornwall border.
Very picturesque and a couple of nice pubs too 😉

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Kinzua is a few hours from where I live.

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About 10 years ago, a lot of it fell down. While they were fixing it! Now it looks like this:

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Edit - I wonder if Red Bull knows about it? 😉

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Used to pass this beauty regularly when I lived in the Highlands. Clava viaduct near Culloden Moor, Inverness.
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Whalley viaduct in Lancashire:

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Monsal Head just down the road - ridden over that hundreds of times and it's always beautiful:
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And you also get to ride over this at Miller's Dale:
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I live right next to that viaduct globalti, that's a fantastic photo- taken from the top of 'Whalley Nab' if I'm not mistaken?

I've got a very similar one on my living room wall. Wonderfull part of the world!

Random fact from an old railway book, when they where building Stokport Viaduct, they where using horses and carts, horses dont like going backwards, and one reversed its load to fill in the viaduct piers, and went a bit to far, cart and horse fell down inside viaduct pier, and theyre still there today, no way and waste of money to get them out.

Some fantastic victorian engineering around.

Yes JP, I took the photo from a field half way nown the Nab one snowy winter's day when we went toboganning. What I would love to get is the steam train crossing the viaduct in snow, though I think it might be an impossible shot because it always comes at dusk.

Broxburn Viaduct

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Ride over this one at Yarm when the weather's nice. The bridge over it at at the end that is.

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Oi you Southern softies, get out your bunker and get posting. Can't let these Northern peeps think everything's concreted over down 'ere. 😛

Off to Google. 🙂

Regularly saw this when growing up in the west of that Lahndun. Hanwell Viaduct:

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