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All eight arches are semicircular, skewed and constructed with helical courses, crossing the Tweed obliquely with four of the piers in the water, and the whole structure is built on a graceful curve of radius 440 yards (400 m) so as to align the route with nearby Neidpath Tunnel, at the eastern end of the viaduct and to the south of Neidpath ...
Goyt Viaduct a.k.a. Strines Viaduct: Strines, Stockport: 1865: Stone arch and girder: II: Spans the River Goyt: Great Musgrave Bridge: Great Musgrave, Cumbria: 1862: Infilled with 1500 tons of concrete in July 2021 by National Highways [4] Gree Viaduct: North-East Ayrshire, Scotland: on the former Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway. Demolished ...
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Neidpath Castle is an L-plan rubble-built tower house, overlooking the River Tweed about 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Peebles in the Borders of Scotland. The castle is both a wedding venue and filming location and can be viewed by appointment.
The effect of adding to the bridge can be seen from below. The five spans vary in length from 38 feet (12 m) to 42 feet (13 m). [1] The oldest part of the bridge uses arches which are almost circular, but the more modern parts use flatter segmental arches. [1]
The view from the towpath. It was designed by Hugh Baird with advice from Thomas Telford and is modelled on Telford's Chirk Aqueduct. [1] Different parts of the canal were tendered to contractors at different times, and the masonry for the Slateford Aqueduct was advertised to builders on 2 March 1818. [2]
[8] [9] The viaduct is at the western end of the Nidd Gorge, where the waters of the River Nidd are funneled into a steep ravine. [10] Just west of the village of Nidd , the route diverges onto the former Nidd valley Railway line until it reaches the A61 road at Killinghall Bridge .
The line north of Aviemore was bypassed by the current more direct route via the Nairn Viaduct in 1898. [9] In his 1963 report " The Reshaping of British Railways " Dr Beeching recommending closing the network's least used stations and lines, [ 10 ] which included the line between Aviemore and Forres and this subsequently closed in 1965.