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The structure carries the former London and Greenwich Railway line and consists of 851 semi-circular arches and 27 skew arches or road bridges. It is the longest run of arches in Britain, [1] It is also one of the oldest railway viaducts in the world, and the earliest example of an entirely elevated railway line. It was built between 1834 and 1836.
Brick arch Carries the South West Main Line. [2] Boythorpe Viaduct: Chesterfield, Derbyshire: 1897: Brick arch: Closed 1957 and demolished. Brackley Viaduct: Brackley, Northamptonshire: 230 m (750 ft) 1896: Brick arch: Carried the Great Central line over the River Great Ouse. Demolished in 1978: Braidhurst Viaduct: Forgewood, North Lanarkshire ...
Dinting is much the larger of two similar viaducts on the line (the other being the Broadbottom Viaduct), both of which are significant for their height.It has four main spans, each of four ribs, flanked by eleven brick-built, semi-circular approach arches, each with a fifty-foot (fifteen-metre) span—four at one end and seven at the other.
The viaduct comprises 22 semi-circular arches with spans of 19.2 metres (63 ft) flanked by a pair of abutment arches of 5.5-metre (18 ft) span. The arch rings are 900 millimetres (35 in) thick. The arches and spandrels are built of red brick set in lime mortar with ashlar spring courses. The deck parapets are 2.2 metres (7 ft 3 in) high.
The viaduct is 96 feet (29 m) high and is carried on 37 semi-circular arches, each of 30 feet (9.1 m), surmounted by balustrades, spanning a total length of 1,480 feet (450 m). Each pier contains a jack arch with a semi-circular soffit , which had the benefit of reducing the number of bricks required. [ 6 ]
Gatehampton Railway Bridge from the upstream bank A GWR class 800 traverses the Viaduct on a cold winter morning. Each of the two bridges consists of four low semi-elliptical arches, having a combined length of 120 metres and a width of 18 metres. [2]
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At the western extent there is a ramp from the beach level up to the promenade. The ramp has commercial units within its brick arches. The last cast-iron arch to the western side is also brick-faced". [1] Later in the twentieth century a former public toilet was added, half in-filling the preceding four arches. [1]