Building record 2528/1/30 - Twemlow Railway Viaduct, Manchester to Birmingham Railway

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 406844 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Railway viaduct 1841 by G W Buck, Engineer to Manchester and Birmingham Railway Company. Red brick, in English Bond, and sandstone. Twenty three semi-circular arches, each of eighteen metres span, supported on three metres on face by eight metres deep piers. Projecting pier plinths with weathered vermiculated stone cornice, mainly in brickwork but the plinths of the two piers nearest to the River Dane are wholly of stone with banded rustication. Ogee moulded stone impost bands. Eight bricks deep arches, some wholly in brick-on-edge rings. The plain stone parapet sits on a projecting two course deep brick band;this is supported by a cornice which is built-up from a chamfered stone band and a massive dentil cornice. The viaduct carries the electrified railway from Manchester to Crewe.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Land Line and Master Map Vector Maps (Maps and Plans). SCH4491.

<3> Ashmore, O, 1982, The Industrial Archaeology of North West England, p.43 (Book). SCH3181.

Viaduct across the valley of the River Dane on the Manchester and Birmingham Railway, opended 1842. Engineer: GW Buck. Twenty-three arches each of sixty-three feet (eighteen metres and twenty centimetres) span. Brick piers on stone plinth, brick arches, stone parapet.