Dean Street Viaduct

HER Number

1947

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Dean Street Viaduct

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

Class

Transport

Site Type: Broad

Railway Transport Site

Site Type: Specific

Railway Viaduct

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Structure

Description

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

Easting

425090

Northing

563940

Grid Reference

NZ425090563940

Sources

<< HER 1947 >> I. Ayris & S.M. Linsley, 1994, A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Tyne and Wear, p 19