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The tallest viaduct in Scotland at 175 feet: Larpool Viaduct: North Yorkshire: 279 m (915 ft) 1885 c. Brick arch: II: Carried the Scarborough and Whitby Railway over the River Esk. Since services ended in 1965, it has become part of a walking and cycling route: Leaderfoot Viaduct: Melrose, Scottish Borders: 1863: Stone and brick arch: Cat. A
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The station at Oldbury had a very short lifespan, closing in 1916 as a result of the first world war and never reopened, although the line remained in use for goods traffic to the local factories until 1960s when the section from Albright and Wilson Oldbury Division to the site of Oldbury was severed by the building of the M5 Motorway. This ...
Grand Union was a proposed open access operator, that had developed plans to operate train services in the United Kingdom from England to Scotland and Wales. The operator had two main proposed routes. One being an England–Wales route, between London Paddington, in England, and Carmarthen, in Wales.
Crumlin Viaduct: County Antrim Crumlin: 1915 Carries a railway line across a road which is itself a bridge over a river Dargan Bridge: County Antrim and County Down Belfast 1994 Longest railway bridge in Ireland Dromore Viaduct: County Down Dromore: 1861 Former railway viaduct Finn Bridge: County Fermanagh and County Monaghan (ROI) Scotshouse: 1856
Grand Junction Canal: Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Brunel's last major project, and a scheduled monument, a unique arrangement carrying rail, road, and canal routes across each other. View of canal and road bridges crossing the railway line looking east
Following the format of Great British Railway Journeys and related series with Portillo as presenter, each episode of this series features a coastal railway journey through England, Scotland, Wales or Ireland. Series 1 was first broadcast on BBC Two in January–February 2022, series 2 in May–June 2023, and series 3 in April–May 2024. [3]
It had acquired the epithet "the Great Way Round", as many of its principal main lines took a circuitous route to the destination. This was true of the West of England and South Wales routes, and the line from London to Birmingham and Chester took a roundabout alignment by way of Didcot and Oxford. [1]