Burnstones Viaduct (east side) and A689 road bridge
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Description
"The road bridge carrying the A689 over Thinhope Burn is nearer to the camera. Burnstones Viaduct (behind the road bridge) carried the Haltwhistle to Alston branch line across the A689, Thinhope Burn and a sike draining the rough pastures west of Side House. For info about the branch line, see https://www.south-tynedale-railway.org.uk . The geometry of the viaduct is unusual (possibly unique) in that the road arch is skewed one way to the line of the (former) railway , and the four arches that cross Thinhope Burn are skewed the other way - see the satellite image http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Knaresdale+with+Kirkhaugh&hl=en&ll=54.88279,-2.50738&spn=0.001106,0.002438&sll=54.812167,-2.438685&sspn=0.035463,0.07802&oq=knaresdale&hnear=Knaresdale+with+Kirkhaugh,+Northumberland,+United+Kingdom&t=k&z=19 . The builders of the bridge overcame this civil engineering problem by means of a deep blind arch (not visible in the photo above) between the road arch (the elliptical and rightmost arch in the photo) and the northernmost of the (semi-circular) open arches that cross the burn. So the viaduct appears to have six arches on the west side (the road arch, the blind arch and four open arches over the burn) and only five (all open arches) on the east side. For more information about the viaduct, see http://ds.dial.pipex.com/town/lane/jy40/page47.html. See also [[3386484]], [[3420952]], [[3420971]], [[3386487]] and [[3421015]]." Photo by Mike Quinn, 2013. -
Owner
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License
What does this mean? Creative Commons License
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Further information
Link: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3420963
Resource type: Image
Added by: Simon Cotterill
Last modified: 3 hours, 49 minutes ago
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Picture Taken: 2013-04-19 -
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