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This is a single track seven arch masonry viaduct. The arches are skewed. It crossed the Deadwater Burn. The parapet resembles battlements, even featuring arrow-loops. There are crosses at the top of the piers, on the spandrels.

The Duke of Northumberland was the local landowner, the appearance of the viaduct was to placate him. His Kielder Lodge was a short distance from Kielder station, not far to the west.

With the flooding of the valley to the south east to form the Kielder Reservoir it now crosses the extreme north west end of the Bakethin Reservoir, separated by a weir from the main reservoir.

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