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Title: Trestle Viaduct, Walshaw Dean. - KEC00190
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Title
Trestle Viaduct, Walshaw Dean. - KEC00190
Description
"At 105 feet high the trestle bridge carrying Blakedean railway across the valley remained a stunning spectacle for over a decade in the early years of the 20th century. Enoch Tempest commissioned architect William Henry Cockcroft and engineer George Greenwood to build the amazing bridge, 700ft long and made of pitch pine. Carriages packed with navvies on their way to work and three locomotives on the line bear witness to the confidence placed in the towering structure which withstood snow, sleet, hail and gale force winds before being demolished in 1912. Only stumps of the stone foundations now remain." Milltown Memories No. 8. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive
Creator
Kenneth Crabtree
Source
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
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Rights
PHDA - Hebden Bridge Local History Society
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
KEC00190.tif
Collection
Citation
Kenneth Crabtree, “Trestle Viaduct, Walshaw Dean. - KEC00190,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 26, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/20084.
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