Tyne and Wear HER(1947): Newcastle, Dean Street Viaduct - Details
1947
Newcastle
Newcastle, Dean Street Viaduct
Newcastle
NZ26SE
Transport
Railway Transport Site
Railway Viaduct
Early Modern
C19
Structure
A finely constructed 80 feet (24.4 metres) elliptical span which is only part of a long viaduct from Newcastle Central Station to Manors Station. Built in 1848, but widened to the north in 1894 on a slightly larger span. Another part of the viaduct takes the form of an iron bridge (at NZ 250639) with diamond grid bracing in the spandrels, built by Abbots of Gateshead in 1849. LISTED GRADE 2
2509
6394
NZ25096394
<< HER 1947 >> I. Ayris & S.M. Linsley, 1994, A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Tyne and Wear, p 19