Tyne and Wear HER(1947): Dean Street Viaduct - Details
1947
Newcastle
Dean Street Viaduct
Newcastle
NZ26SE
Transport
Railway Transport Site
Railway Viaduct
POST MEDIEVAL
Victorian 1837 to 1901
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
425090
563940
NZ425090563940
<< HER 1947 >> I. Ayris & S.M. Linsley, 1994, A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Tyne and Wear, p 19