Monument record 2527/1/12 - Chester and Birkenhead Railway - Viaduct Over the Shropshire Union Canal

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 404435 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Railway viaduct: dated 1839 by George Stephenson and John Dixon for Chester and Birkenhead Railway Co. Rock-faced red sandstone with blue and orange brick vaulting. Main arch over the canal built on the skew has rusticated voussoirs and dated keystones with a skew brick vault. To either side is an arcade of five smaller ordinary semi-circular brick arches with stone imposts and keystones on raking stone piers. Projecting band at track level carries a low stone parapet with modern aluminium railing.