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The viaduct, built by the Midland Railway, is 28 miles (45 km) north-west of Skipton and 26 miles (42 km) south-east of Kendal. It is a Grade II* listed structure. [ 1 ] Ribblehead Viaduct is the longest and the third tallest structure on the Settle–Carlisle line.
Ribblehead-here is the Ribblehead Viaduct (originally named Batty Moss Viaduct) 440 yd (396 m), with 24 piers Blea Moor here is Blea Moor signal box and loop. Blea Moor signalbox is the remotest signal box in England [53] Blea Moor Tunnel 2629 yd (2366 m) long; here are the Dent Head & Arten Gill viaducts. Dent (4.5 miles outside the village of ...
Originally built by Brunel with laminated timber arches. Slade Viaduct: near Ivybridge, Devon: Stone arch: Crosses Piall valley: Smardale Viaduct: Crosby Garrett, Cumbria: 220 m (720 ft) 1875: Stone arch: Crosses Scandal Beck and the former Stainmore railway line. Smardalegill Viaduct: Crosby Garrett, Cumbria: 167 m (548 ft) c. 1861: Stone arch ...
The Ribblehead Viaduct carries the Settle–Carlisle railway across the Ribble Valley in North Yorkshire. It was built by the Midland Railway to a design by John Sydney Crossley, opening in 1876. Faced with limestone and with almost semicircular red brick arches, it is 440 yards (400 m) long and 104 feet (32 m) high.
Ribblehead is the area of moorland at the head of the River Ribble in the area known as Ribblesdale, in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, England. Ribblehead is most notable for Ribblehead railway station and Ribblehead Viaduct on the Settle to Carlisle railway .
The station, situated 52 miles 17 chains (84 km) north-west of Leeds, serves the area of Ribblehead in North Yorkshire, England. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains. The station is located at the southern end of the Ribblehead Viaduct, which spans a length of 400 metres (1,300 ft) over Batty Moss.
Ingleton Viaduct is a Grade II listed structure in the village. [41] Six miles to the north east on Batty Moss is the Ribblehead Viaduct, a Grade II* listed structure on the Settle and Carlisle Line, and on the land underneath and around it, the scheduled remains of the construction camp and navvy settlements. [42]
A stone bridge was built in the early 1400s, possibly just west of the present Walton Bridge which was completed in 1781. Until 1755 this was the only bridge over the Ribble at Preston. [ 19 ] The original attempt to build a bridge directly to Penwortham was completed in 1755, only to collapse the following year.