Devon/Dorset HolidayCannington Viaduct, 13 Jul 2014 |
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 The line here was on an embankment   With a bridge over a farm track  The road went through between the farm buildings    and soon we could see the viaduct. There is a footpath marked direct to it, but it seemed to be overgrown and part underwater  So we continued along the road, taking a short cut across by a pond where the road goes on a loop  Soon we got a better view of the Cannington Viaduct  Quite an impressive structure |
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 So we took far too many pictures of it  The railway was a 'Light Railway' and got the go-ahead in 1896, but the viaduct was only finished in 1903  It was one of the first and highest to be built with mass concrete with pre-cast concrete voussoirs  and one arch had to be reinforced after some slippage happened during the building  with a brick arch ring.  A stream runs under the viaduct close to this arch  The viaduct is a little over 600 ft long and the arches are 50 ft wide and 92 ft high.  As we were leaving, a white horse appeared underneath it - so more pictures...  |
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