Burnstones Viaduct - arch over the A689
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Description
"Burnstones Viaduct 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 between the road arch and the northernmost of the 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. The low parapet wall on the far side of the arch is that of the earlier road bridge over Thinhope Burn - see [[3421066]]. See also [[3386484]], [[3420952]], [[3420963]], [[3420971]], [[3386487]] and [[3421015]]." Photo by Mike Quinn, 2013. -
Owner
Mike Quinn -
Source
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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/3421080
Resource type: Image
Added by: Simon Cotterill
Last modified: 4 hours, 58 minutes ago
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Picture Taken: 2013-04-19 -
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