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Crimple Valley Viaduct

Crimple Valley Viaduct
Evening Star crosses Crimple Viaduct - geograph.org.uk - 845575.jpg
Evening Star crosses Crimple Viaduct
Carries Harrogate Line
Crosses Crimple Valley
Locale North Yorkshire
Official name Crimple Valley Viaduct
Maintained by Network Rail
Heritage status Grade II* listed
Characteristics
Total length 1,872 feet (571 m)
Height 110 feet (34 m)
History
Opened 1848

Coordinates: 53°58′22.79″N 1°31′0.07″W / 53.9729972°N 1.5166861°W / 53.9729972; -1.5166861

Crimple Valley Viaduct, also known as Crimple Viaduct and Crimple Beck Viaduct is a railway viaduct which crosses the Crimple Valley between Pannal railway station and Hornbeam Park railway station in North Yorkshire. It is a Grade II* listed structure.

It is 1,875 feet (572 m) long and has 31 arches, each of 52-foot (16 m) span, which reach a maximum height of 110 feet (34 m) above the Crimple Valley.

It was completed in 1848 to designs by George Hudson for the York and North Midland Railway company and built of rusticated grit stone ashlar. The contractor was James Bray.


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