Victoria Viaduct

Victoria Viaduct

Infobox Bridge


bridge_name = Victoria Viaduct
caption = Victoria Viaduct, 2007.
official_name =
locale = Washington, England
carries = Rail (mothballed)
crosses = River Wear
open = 28 June 1838

The Victoria Viaduct is a rail bridge spanning the River Wear in North East England, carrying the mothballed Leamside Line. The bridge was commissioned by the Durham Junction Railway and designed by Thomas Elliot Harrison. It was based upon the Roman bridge at Alcántara, Spain. Built from 1836-8, the viaduct was named after the-then new monarch, Queen Victoria and was officially opened on 28 June 1838 (the queen's coronation day), although it did not open to traffic until 1839.

The bridge formed part of the main line linking Newcastle upon Tyne and London until the line was routed through Durham in 1872. The line was closed to passenger trains following the Beeching Axe. The bridge continued to carry freight until the closure of the freight terminal at nearby Follingsby in 1991, following which the bridge was mothballed.

Crossings navbox
structure = Crossings
place = River Wear
bridge = Victoria Viaduct
upstream = Fatfield Bridge
downstream = Coxgreen Footbridge

Further reading

* [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lPkgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA73&lpg=PA73&dq=%22victoria+viaduct%22&source=web&ots=WKoUKUxDc8&sig=v2-UR6of9wLNKcY_zvOd6cE_QI4&hl=en#PPP1,M1 Francis Whishaw, "The Railways of Great Britain and Ireland" (1842, page 73)]


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