Crimple Valley Viaduct

Coordinates: 53°58′22.79″N 1°31′0.07″W / 53.9729972°N 1.5166861°W

Crimple Valley Viaduct

Evening Star crosses Crimple Viaduct
Carries Harrogate Line
Crosses Crimple Valley
Locale North Yorkshire
Official name Crimple Valley Viaduct
Maintained by Network Rail
Characteristics
Total length 1,872 feet (571 m)
Height 110 feet (34 m)
History
Opened 1848[1]

Railways in Harrogate

Legend
Line to Northallerton
closed to passengers 1967

Harrogate
Starbeck
Hornbeam Park
opened 1992

to York
Crimple Viaduct

Line to Church Fenton
closed to passengers 1964

Pannal
to Leeds

Crimple Valley Viaduct, also known as Crimple Viaduct and Crimple Beck Viaduct is a railway viaduct which crosses the Crimple Valley between Pannal railway station and Hornbeam Park railway station in North Yorkshire. It is a Grade II* listed structure.

It is 1,875 feet (572 m) long and has 31 arches, each of 52-foot (16 m) span,[2] which reach a maximum height of 110 feet (34 m) above the Crimple Valley.

It was completed in 1848[3] to designs by George Hudson for the York and North Midland Railway company and built of rusticated grit stone ashlar. The contractor was James Bray.[4]

References

  1. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (329858)". Images of England. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
  2. Lincolnshire Chronicle - Friday 11 June 1847
  3. Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: North East England, by K. Hoole. David St. John Thomas. David & Charles, 1965
  4. Leeds Intelligencer - Saturday 16 September 1848
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