Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | Liddel Viaduct | |
| site name:- | Liddel Water | |
| site name:- | Border Union Railway | |
| parish |
Kirkandrews parish, once in
Cumberland
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| railway viaduct; viaduct | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY41097557 | |
| 10Km square:- |
NY47
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| 1Km square | NY4175 | |
 Liddel Viaduct -- Liddel Water -- Border Union Railway -- Kirkandrews -- Cumbria / -- 4.6.2010 | ||
| old map:- |
OS County Series (Cmd 6 4)
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| County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. | ||
| Liddel Viaduct | ||
| placename:- | Liddel Viaduct | |
| railway viaduct | ||
| date:- | 1890=1899 | |
| period:- | 19th century, late; 1890s | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| RIDDINGS JUNCTION VIADUCT / / / KIRKANDREWS / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 461958 / NY4107275585 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Railway viaduct, presently disused. 1864, with minor late C20 alterations. Built for the North British Railway. Rock-faced red sandstone structure, comprised of 9 sharply-skewed arches with channelled ashlar voussoirs, the channelling carried diagonally across the arch soffits. The arches are supported on tapered rectangular piers. C20 brick parapets with concrete copings and handrail. The curved viaduct carried a single line track over Liddell Water, the centre of which represents the border between England and Scotland. The Scottish part of the viaduct lies in the parish of Canonbie, in the district of Annandale and Eskdale. | ||
| placename:- | Riddings Junction Viaduct | |
| district:- | Carlisle | |
| listed building | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY41077558 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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