Viaducts, used and disused, including views 2008-2023


David Bosher

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<h4><a href='/locations/L/Limehouse'>Limehouse</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Blackwall_Railway'>Blackwall Railway</a></small></p><p>Unidentified DLR unit heading east along Limehouse Viaduct between Limehouse and Westferry stations, crossing the start of the Regent's Canal with Limehouse Basin, formerly known as Regent's Canal Dock, beyond on 7th June 2008. The viaduct was opened by the London & Blackwall Railway in 1840 but closed to passengers in 1926 and to freight in 1962. It lay disused until 1987 when it was utilised by one of the first two sections of the DLR. It is now a Grade 1 Listed Structure by English Heritage. The year 2020 also marks the bi-centenary of the Regent's Canal that opened in 1820 to link the Grand Junction Canal at Paddington with the Thames at Limehouse. Both canals were amalgamated in 1929 to form the Grand Union Canal but the Regent's Canal is still known colloquially by its original name. 1/46</p><p>07/06/2008<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Westferry'>Westferry</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/D/Docklands_Light_Railway'>Docklands Light Railway</a></small></p><p>DLR unit 10 from Beckton to Tower Gateway approaching Westferry station, on 7th June 2008. The train is now on the original London & Blackwall Railway viaduct of 1840 that originally closed to passengers in 1926 and to freight in 1962. It was revived for the first sections of the Docklands Light Railway in 1987 and is now a Grade 1 Listed Structure by English Heritage. 2/46</p><p>07/06/2008<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/L/Limehouse'>Limehouse</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Blackwall_Railway'>Blackwall Railway</a></small></p><p>Limehouse Viaduct, east London, from the south-east on 15th February 2014. This viaduct opened in 1840 for the London & Blackwall Railway and closed to passengers in 1926 and to freight in 1962. It then stood unused until utilised by the first stage of the Docklands Light Railway (Tower Gateway to Island Gardens section) in 1985. The viaduct is now a Grade 1 Listed Structure by English Heritage. 3/46</p><p>15/02/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/M/Milton_Regis_Viaduct'>Milton Regis Viaduct</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/S/Sittingbourne,_Kemsley_and_Ridham_Dock_Railway_Bowaters'>Sittingbourne, Kemsley and Ridham Dock Railway (Bowaters)</a></small></p><p>Sittingbourne & Kemsley Railway train from Sittingbourne Viaduct to Kemsley Down, making its way along the twisting 2985 yards long Milton Regis Viaduct on 20th July 2014. This dates from 1914 and consists of 118 spans and 6 bridges. By 2008, closure of the line became a distinct possibility and no trains ran at all in 2009. For a few weeks in October 2010, trains were reinstated between Kemsley Down and the north end of Milton Regis Viaduct but did not cross the viaduct which needed substantial repairs. Between May and September 2011, trains again ran on this truncated section but once the repairs had been carried out, the whole line from Kemsley Down to Sittingbourne Viaduct reopened on 27th May 2012. 4/46</p><p>20/07/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/R/Ribblehead_Viaduct'>Ribblehead Viaduct</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/S/Settle_and_Carlisle_Line_Midland_Railway'>Settle and Carlisle Line (Midland Railway)</a></small></p><p>UK Railtours excursion from London Kings Cross to Carlisle, behind D9009 since Doncaster, crossing the Settle & Carlisle Line's iconic Ribblehead Viaduct, on 3rd October 2015. 5/46</p><p>03/10/2015<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/R/Ribblehead_Viaduct'>Ribblehead Viaduct</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/S/Settle_and_Carlisle_Line_Midland_Railway'>Settle and Carlisle Line (Midland Railway)</a></small></p><p>Ribblehead Viaduct, looking back south from UK Railtours excursion from London Kings Cross to Carlisle, now behind D9009, on 3rd October 2015. 6/46</p><p>03/10/2015<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Summerseat_Viaduct'>Summerseat Viaduct</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/East_Lancashire_Railway'>East Lancashire Railway</a></small></p><p>View from East Lancashire Railway train from Bury Bolton Street to Rawtenstall, crossing Summerseat Viaduct over the River Irwell, on 5th April 2016. The road bridge, and the building that used to stand on it, were devastated during flooding in 2015. Since that time the bridge has only been available for pedestrian use. 7/46</p><p>05/04/2016<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Stubbins'>Stubbins</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/East_Lancashire_Railway'>East Lancashire Railway</a></small></p><p>View from East Lancashire Railway train approaching the disused Stubbins station, on 5th April 2016. Alder Bottom viaduct, crossing the River Irwell, is on the abandoned main line that diverged at Stubbins to Accrington via Helmshore but closed in 1966. 8/46</p><p>05/04/2016<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Chelfham_Viaduct'>Chelfham Viaduct</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/Lynton_and_Barnstaple_Railway'>Lynton and Barnstaple Railway</a></small></p><p>Majestic, but silent since 1935 when the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway closed, Chelfham Viaduct is ready for narrow gauge trains again although it will still be some years before they cross. This view is from one of the buses taking UK Railtours' day-trippers from Barnstaple station to the revived section of the L & B at Woody Bay, on 17th April 2016. 9/46</p><p>17/04/2016<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Bennerley_Viaduct'>Bennerley Viaduct</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/D/Derbyshire_Branch_Great_Northern_Railway'>Derbyshire Branch (Great Northern Railway)</a></small></p><p>The disused Bennerley Viaduct across the Erewash Valley, looking towards Nottingham from a UK Railtours excursion making its roundabout way from St. Pancras to Cleethorpes, on 7th May 2016. This viaduct was on the GNR line from Nottingham to Derby Friargate and was begun in May 1876 and completed in January 1878. The line closed, along with Derby Friargate station, on 7th September 1964 and although the viaduct is now a Grade II Listed Structure by English Heritage, it is also on their at risk list, due to its current poor condition. It was recently visited by Tim Dunn in one of his excellent The Architecture the Railways Built t.v. programmes where he spoke to a member of The Friends of Bennerley Viaduct who are doing their best to restore it as much as possible but, for the time being, it remains unwalkable. 10/46</p><p>07/05/2016<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Brookhouse_Viaduct'>Brookhouse Viaduct</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/S/South_Yorkshire_Joint_Railway_Great_Central_Railway,_Great_Northern_Railway,_Lancashire_and_Yorkshire_Railway,_Midland_Railway_and_North_Eastern_Railway'>South Yorkshire Joint Railway (Great Central Railway, Great Northern Railway, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Midland Railway and North Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>Between Shireoaks, on the Sheffield to Lincoln line in Nottinghamshire, and Kirk Sandall on the Doncaster to Cleethorpes line in Lincolnshire, runs the little-known and quite secretive freight line of the former South Yorkshire Joint Railway. Authorised in 1903, it opened to freight on 1st January 1909 and to passengers on 1st December 1910 but the passenger service lasted only 19 years, ceasing on 2nd December 1929. It does, however, remain as a freight route for coal transportation to both the Trent and Aire Valley power stations. On 7th May 2016 it re-awakened to the sound of a passenger train again when a UK Railtours excursion from St. Pancras to Cleethorpes traversed the line, seen here crossing Brookhouse Viaduct, the line's most substantial engineering feature. 11/46</p><p>07/05/2016<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Calstock_Viaduct'>Calstock Viaduct</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Callington_Branch_Plymouth,_Devonport_and_South_Western_Junction_Railway'>Callington Branch (Plymouth, Devonport and South Western Junction Railway)</a></small></p><p>The impressive view of the Tamar with Calstock on the left, looking north from 150124 on a service from Gunnislake to Plymouth crossing from Cornwall into Devon, on 11th March 2017. The viaduct was constructed between 1904 and 1907, is 800 ft. long and 120 ft. high and consists of 12 arches with a 60 ft. span. It is the largest viaduct in Britain constructed entirely of concrete blocks. 12/46</p><p>11/03/2017<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Corrib_Viaduct'>Corrib Viaduct</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Clifden_Branch_Midland_Great_Western_Railway'>Clifden Branch (Midland Great Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>Remains of the viaduct that carried the one-time Connemara Railway from Galway to Clifden over the River Corrib at Galway, seen here, looking from north to south, on 21st June 2017. The line opened in 1895 and closed in 1935. According to a News item posted on 20th June 2020 on the Connemara Railway website (www.connemararailway.ie), a scheme to restore the former Maam Cross station, roughly midway along the line, and lay a short section of track on which to bring trains back to the Connemara region after 85 years, is still to go ahead despite the current situation with the coronavirus pandemic. 13/46</p><p>21/06/2017<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Cynghordy_Viaduct'>Cynghordy Viaduct</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Central_Wales_Extension_Railway'>Central Wales Extension Railway</a></small></p><p>UK Railtours excursion from London Paddington to Llandrindod Wells, behind 68016, heading north across the majestic Cynghordy Viaduct on the Heart of Wales Line, on 2nd September 2017. 14/46</p><p>02/09/2017<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/K/Knucklas_Viaduct'>Knucklas Viaduct</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Central_Wales_Railway'>Central Wales Railway</a></small></p><p>UK Railtours' return excursion from Llandrindod Wells to London Paddington crossing Knucklas Viaduct, dating from 1865 on the Heart of Wales Line, on 2nd September 2017. 15/46</p><p>02/09/2017<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/N/Neidpath_Viaduct'>Neidpath Viaduct</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/S/Symington,_Biggar_and_Broughton_Railway'>Symington, Biggar and Broughton Railway</a></small></p><p>The former Neidpath Viaduct, looking west, on 23rd February 2018. 16/46</p><p>23/02/2018<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/N/Neidpath_Viaduct'>Neidpath Viaduct</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/S/Symington,_Biggar_and_Broughton_Railway'>Symington, Biggar and Broughton Railway</a></small></p><p>The west end of the former Neidpath Viaduct, on the Peebles to Symington line. The line closed to passengers in 1950 and this section to freight in 1954. This view is looking east towards Peebles on 23rd February 2018. 17/46</p><p>23/02/2018<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/N/Neidpath_Viaduct'>Neidpath Viaduct</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/S/Symington,_Biggar_and_Broughton_Railway'>Symington, Biggar and Broughton Railway</a></small></p><p>Former Neidpath Viaduct, now a footpath, looking east towards Peebles on 23rd February 2018. 18/46</p><p>23/02/2018<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/N/Neidpath_Viaduct'>Neidpath Viaduct</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/S/Symington,_Biggar_and_Broughton_Railway'>Symington, Biggar and Broughton Railway</a></small></p><p>The former Neidpath Viaduct across the River Tweed, now a footpath, looking east towards Peebles on 23rd February 2018. 19/46</p><p>23/02/2018<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/N/Neidpath_Viaduct'>Neidpath Viaduct</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/S/Symington,_Biggar_and_Broughton_Railway'>Symington, Biggar and Broughton Railway</a></small></p><p>The former Neidpath Viaduct across the River Tweed, and a solitary fisherman, on 22nd February 2018. 20/46</p><p>22/02/2018<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Bedlington_Viaduct'>Bedlington Viaduct</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Bedlington_Private_Railway'>Bedlington Private Railway</a></small></p><p>View from UK Railtours excursion, making its way north from Newsham to North Blyth, crossing Bedlington Viaduct over the River Blyth in Northumberland, looking east, during pouring rain on 7th April 2018. Closed to passengers in 1964, this line has finally been granted funding that will see its reopening from Newcastle to Ashington. 21/46</p><p>07/04/2018<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/M/Muswell_Hill'>Muswell Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Muswell_Hill_Railway'>Muswell Hill Railway</a></small></p><p>The north end of Muswell Hill viaduct, on the former GNR Alexandra Palace branch that almost became part of the London Underground Northern Line, where the trackbed footpath runs into a cutting to pass beneath Muswell Hill bridge, beyond which was the site of Muswell Hill station, on 12th February 2019. The line beneath the bridge has been reduced from the former double-track railway width to a single pedestrian subway. The station's platform ruins survived into the 1970s and a school now stands on the site. 22/46</p><p>12/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/M/Muswell_Hill'>Muswell Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Muswell_Hill_Railway'>Muswell Hill Railway</a></small></p><p>The east side of the 17 arch Muswell Hill viaduct on the Northern Heights of London, looking west up the steep ascent of St. James's Lane towards the south end of the Alpine-like Muswell Hill Broadway, with the tower of St. James's Church in the background, on 12th February 2019. The line closed to passengers in 1954 and is now one of two sections converted into a footpath in the 1970s and both known as the Parkland Walk. Although had it not been for World War Two, this former GNR steam line would now be part of the London Underground Northern Line. Conversion work was put on hold in 1939 and never resumed after 1945 despite conductor rails, lineside cabling and a new substation at Crouch End having been completed and more than a million pounds spent on the project before 1939, work and money that was entirely wasted. Muswell Hill station was at the north end of the viaduct, its platform ruins survived into the 1970s and a school now stands on its site. 23/46</p><p>12/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/M/Muswell_Hill'>Muswell Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Muswell_Hill_Railway'>Muswell Hill Railway</a></small></p><p>The west side of Muswell Hill viaduct on the former Alexandra Palace branch, looking down St. James's Lane in this Alpine-like north London suburb, on 12th February 2019. 24/46</p><p>12/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/M/Muswell_Hill'>Muswell Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Muswell_Hill_Railway'>Muswell Hill Railway</a></small></p><p>View down the west side of Muswell Hill Viaduct, on the former Alexandra Palace branch, on 12th February 2019. Had World War Two been delayed by six months or so, the scheme to convert this to a branch of the London Underground Northern Line would have been completed but work never resumed after 1945 and the line closed instead in 1954, after more than £1 million was spent on it before 1939, making this one of the most shameful blots on London Transport's otherwise rich history. The steps were constructed when this section of the line, including the viaduct, became one of two separate parts of the Parkland Walk footpath in the 1970s. 25/46</p><p>12/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Wanstead_Park'>Wanstead Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tottenham_and_Forest_Gate_Railway'>Tottenham and Forest Gate Railway</a></small></p><p>A Class 172 two car diesel unit, on a London Overground GOBLIN service from Barking to Gospel Oak, continuing on its way along the 1894 Tottenham & Forest Gate Railway viaduct, with its 384 arches, just after departing from Wanstead Park on 13th February 2019. 26/46</p><p>13/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Wanstead_Park'>Wanstead Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tottenham_and_Forest_Gate_Railway'>Tottenham and Forest Gate Railway</a></small></p><p>The entrance to Wanstead Park station, on what is now the GOBLIN section of the London Overground, is tucked into one of the 384 arches of the ex-Tottenham & Forest Gate Railway viaduct, which line opened from the Hampstead Junction Railway at South Tottenham to the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway at Woodgrange Park, on 9th July 1894. The viaduct runs from just east of Wanstead Park station to just east of Walthamstow Queen's Road station, trains ascending or descending from and to the latter via a steep incline. This view from the south side is on the bright but still quite cold morning of 13th February 2019. [Ref query 14 February 2019] 27/46</p><p>13/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/G/Glen_Ogle_Viaduct'>Glen Ogle Viaduct</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Callander_and_Oban_Railway'>Callander and Oban Railway</a></small></p><p>Remains of Glen Ogle viaduct on the one-time Callander & Oban line, closed in 1965, seen from bus from Killin to Callander, on the afternoon of 13th March 2019. 28/46</p><p>13/03/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/T/Tay_Viaduct_Perth'>Tay Viaduct [Perth]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/D/Dundee_and_Perth_Railway'>Dundee and Perth Railway</a></small></p><p>Peppercorn A1 class no. 60163 'Tornado' crossing Perth Viaduct with 'The Aberdonian' railtour from Edinburgh Waverley to Aberdeen, on 14th March 2019. 29/46</p><p>14/03/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Stroud_Green'>Stroud Green</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Edgware,_Highgate_and_London_Railway'>Edgware, Highgate and London Railway</a></small></p><p>Upper Tollington Park bridge, between Finsbury Park and Stroud Green on the abandoned Northern Heights line to Alexandra Palace, looking north on 28th March 2019. The line was earmarked to become part of the London Underground Northern Line and over a million pounds was spent on the plan before 1939 but, after 1945, the scheme was not re-started and the line closed to passengers in 1954. Goods traffic continued until 1964 and the line was retained for a further six years for empty stock workings, so did see tube trains, even if hauled by battery locos and devoid of passengers who had to fight their way onto overcrowded buses, as they still do. Tracks were removed in 1971 and this is now one of two separate sections known as the Parkland Walk footpath. 30/46</p><p>28/03/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/F/Fiddich_Viaduct'>Fiddich Viaduct</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/K/Keith_and_Dufftown_Railway'>Keith and Dufftown Railway</a></small></p><p>View from rear of Class 108 DMU 'Spirit of Banffshire,' crossing the two arch masonry viaduct that spans the River Fiddich sixty feet below, with a Keith and Dufftown Railway service, the most northerly heritage line in the UK, from Keith Town to Dufftown, not far now from the latter, on Sunday, 16th June 2019. 31/46</p><p>16/06/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Stroud_Green'>Stroud Green</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Edgware,_Highgate_and_London_Railway'>Edgware, Highgate and London Railway</a></small></p><p>Stroud Green viaduct, seen through the front upstairs windows of a route W3 bus from Finsbury Park to Northumberland Park on Stapleton Hall Road, north London, on 1st February 2020. This once carried the ex-GNR 'Northern Heights' line to Alexandra Palace that almost became part of the LUL Northern Line but the scheme was cancelled after WWII, even though more than £1 million had been spent before 1939 on the aborted electrification project. Through the left hand arch is the surviving station house (with chimney pots and now a community centre) of Stroud Green station that closed with the line in 1954. The wooden platforms and buildings were on the embankment to the left but were burned down by vandals in 1967. Beneath the roadway here runs the London Overground GOBLIN Gospel Oak to Barking line to the east of Crouch Hill station, crossing obliquely under the roadway and then the viaduct in a short tunnel. A good view of the GOBLIN looking east, and the spur to the ECML, can be gained from the viaduct which now forms part of the Parkland Walk footpath. 32/46</p><p>01/02/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/R/Ribblehead_Viaduct'>Ribblehead Viaduct</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/S/Settle_and_Carlisle_Line_Midland_Railway'>Settle and Carlisle Line (Midland Railway)</a></small></p><p>View from RTC's steam-hauled return railtour from Carlisle to Preston, looking south-east from Ribblehead Viaduct on the Settle & Carlisle Line, on the afternoon of Saturday, 14th March 2020. This magnificent structure took five years to construct between 1870 and 1875, is 440 yards long, 104 feet high and has 24 spans. It was designed by an architect named John Sydney Crossley of whom I have been unable to discover anything. 33/46</p><p>14/03/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Cambridge_Heath'>Cambridge Heath</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Bethnal_Green_to_Edmonton_and_Lea_Valley_Line_Great_Eastern_Railway'>Bethnal Green to Edmonton and Lea Valley Line (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>The Great Eastern Railway viaduct of 1872 crossing the Regents Canal, just to the north of Cambridge Heath station, looking east on 31st August 2020. This viaduct carries London Overground trains from Liverpool Street to Chingford, Enfield Town and Cheshunt as well as Stansted Express and Cambridge services. The Regents Canal is celebrating its bi-centenary in 2020, having opened in 1820 to link the Grand Junction Canal at Paddington with the Thames at Limehouse. Both canals were amalgamated in 1929 to form the Grand Union Canal but the Regents Canal is still known colloquially by its original name. 34/46</p><p>31/08/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Stroud_Green'>Stroud Green</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Edgware,_Highgate_and_London_Railway'>Edgware, Highgate and London Railway</a></small></p><p>View from Stroud Green viaduct on the GNR's former Northern Heights line, closed in 1954 and now a footpath. This view looks east along the London Overground Gospel Oak to Barking line, which passes beneath the viaduct in a short tunnel, on 31st March 2021. On the left is the single track spur that connects with the GNR main line just to the south of Harringay station and which is normally only used by freight and empty stock workings. However, I was able to traverse this spur on 4th May 2019 on a UK Railtours' excursion that originated, rather unusually, at London Victoria to the Midland Railway Centre at Butterley in Derbyshire. The train did call at Alexandra Palace (formerly Wood Green) which is close to where I live and had I boarded the train there would have given me an extra hour in bed but that would have meant missing a ride over this short section of line in north London not normally used by passengers. So an early start to Victoria it had to be. 35/46</p><p>31/03/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/M/Muswell_Hill'>Muswell Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Muswell_Hill_Railway'>Muswell Hill Railway</a></small></p><p>West Side Story - a view down the west side of Muswell Hill viaduct in north London on the one-time Alexandra Palace branch, opened in 1873 and closed to passengers in 1954. The steps were constructed in the 1970s to give access to the trackbed when this was converted into the Parkland Walk between Muswell Hill and Cranley Gardens. 36/46</p><p>19/04/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/M/Muswell_Hill'>Muswell Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Muswell_Hill_Railway'>Muswell Hill Railway</a></small></p><p>View west through the main arch of the former Muswell Hill viaduct on the Finsbury Park to Alexandra Palace line, with St. Michaels Church on top of the hill, framed by the arch, on the afternoon of 19th April 2021. This line opened in 1873 as a branch of the GNR's Northern Heights lines and but for WWII would now be part of the London Underground Northern Line but it closed in 1954 and is now part of the Parkland Walk footpath. 37/46</p><p>19/04/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/M/Muswell_Hill'>Muswell Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Muswell_Hill_Railway'>Muswell Hill Railway</a></small></p><p>View of the east side of Muswell Hill viaduct, looking north, on the former GNR Alexandra Palace line that almost became part of the London Underground Northern Line but closed to passengers in 1954, despite over £1 million being spent on the aborted electrification project before 1939. The viaduct now forms one of two separate footpaths on the trackbed, both known as the Parkland Walk, seen here on 19th April 2021. 38/46</p><p>19/04/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Barking_Riverside'>Barking Riverside</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Barking_Riverside_Branch_London_Overground'>Barking Riverside Branch (London Overground)</a></small></p><p>The new London Overground viaduct, immediately outside Barking Riverside station, under construction in June 2021 ahead of opening in July 2022. 39/46</p><p>24/06/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/L/London_City_Airport'>London City Airport</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/D/Docklands_Light_Railway'>Docklands Light Railway</a></small></p><p>DLR train from Bank to Woolwich Arsenal, approaching London City Airport station, on 13th July 2021. It was a sheer fluke that this happened to go across the viaduct just as I was sitting at the front upstairs windows of a TfL bus on route 473 about to pass under it. 40/46</p><p>13/07/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Stockport'>Stockport</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Manchester_and_Birmingham_Railway'>Manchester and Birmingham Railway</a></small></p><p>View from UK Railtours' excursion from London Euston to Leeds City heading north along Stockport Viaduct, a landmark for miles around, on Saturday, 12th February 2022. This massive structure was built for the Manchester & Birmingham Railway and crosses 111 ft. above the valley of the River Mersey (See image <a href='/img/33/400/index.html'>33400</a>). It was begun in 1839 and, despite needing 11 million bricks and with 29 spans, opened as a double-track viaduct in December 1840. It was widened to four tracks in the 1880s with the electrification masts going up in 1966. The viaduct has been a Grade II Listed Structure by English Heritage since 1975. 41/46</p><p>12/02/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Westferry'>Westferry</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Blackwall_Railway'>Blackwall Railway</a></small></p><p>View from DLR unit no. 72 with a diverted working from Bank to Stratford on the afternoon of Saturday, 3rd December 2022, nearing Westferry along the former London & Blackwall Railway viaduct of 1840, at the point where it crosses the Limehouse Cut, a short canal that links the lower reaches of the river Lea with the Thames and dating from 1769. Closed to passengers in 1926 and to freight in 1962, the viaduct lay disused until utilised by the DLR in 1987 and is now a Grade 1 Listed Structure by English Heritage. 42/46</p><p>03/12/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Shadwell'>Shadwell</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Blackwall_Railway'>Blackwall Railway</a></small></p><p>One of two entrances to Shadwell DLR station, the most easterly, beneath the historic London & Blackwall Railway viaduct of 1840, on 25th January 2023. This stands on the site of the old Shadwell & St. Georges East station, closed as a war economy in 1941 and never reopened, but whose boarded-up entrance still stands further east. <a href='/img/73/355/index.html'>73355</a> 43/46</p><p>25/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/West_Silvertown'>West Silvertown</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/D/Docklands_Light_Railway'>Docklands Light Railway</a></small></p><p>DLR unit no. 03 from Woolwich Arsenal to Bank approaching West Silvertown along the sinuous viaduct from Pontoon Dock, on a bright but bitterly cold 25th February 2023. My favourite pic of the day! 44/46</p><p>25/02/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/L/Luton_DART_Parkway'>Luton DART Parkway</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/Luton_DART'>Luton DART</a></small></p><p>View from the front of the first train on the new £300 million Luton Airport DART Railway, setting out on its maiden voyage from Luton DART Parkway for the airport, on 10th March 2023. In the morning, before the line opened, passengers were still using the bus to get from Luton Airport Parkway station to the airport. The route operates as two parallel single lines. 45/46</p><p>10/03/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/L/Luton_DART_Parkway'>Luton DART Parkway</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/Luton_DART'>Luton DART</a></small></p><p>Having travelled on the first train of the new Luton Airport DART Railway on its first day of service, Friday, 10th March 2023, after arriving back I decided on one more trip to the airport before going home. This is the view from the rear of the unit, on the substantial bridge over a motorway link road, with the haulage cable clearly visible. 46/46</p><p>10/03/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>
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