Bridges

Headstone Viaduct, built by the Midland Railway, over the River Wye, immediately after the 533-yard (487 m) Headstone Tunnel, travelling north from Great Longstone. The viaduct, usually incorrectly called Monsal Dale Viaduct, is 300 feet (91 m) long, with five 50-foot (15 m) span arches, some forty feet high at the centre. The sight of the viaduct outraged artist and writer John Ruskin, who fumed: “You might have seen the gods here morning and evening, walking in fair procession on the lawns, and to and fro among the pinnacles of its crags, but the valley is gone and the gods with it, and now every fool in Buxton can be in Bakewell in half an hour, and every fool in Bakewell in Buxton.”

Apley Suspension Bridge, built in 1905 to connect the Apley estate to Linley Station on the Severn Valley Railway line. (5034 views on Panoramio)

The path on the left is a old footpath along the slope of Apley Terrace leading to below the Trig Point. However it soon becomes engulfed and we had to claw our way to the brow of the Terrace and follow the field fence to join a track along the ridge.

The Victoria Bridge is a 200 ft single span railway bridge crossing the River Severn between Arley and Bewdley in Worcestershire. Opened for traffic on 31 January 1861, the original railway line was closed in 1963. The bridge now carries the operational heritage Severn Valley Railway. Its design is almost identical to Albert Edward Bridge which also spans the Severn at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire, England, both having been designed by John Fowler. Victoria Bridge is a cast iron arch bridge, with four arch ribs each of nine parts bolted together. The arch elements were cast by the Coalbrookdale Company, and the bridge built by the company of Thomas Brassey, Samuel Morton Peto and Edward Betts. It features in the film 'The Thirty-nine Steps' with Robert Powell in the leading role.

Is that a man with a gun? The Victoria Bridge is a 200 ft single span railway bridge crossing the River Severn between Arley and Bewdley in Worcestershire. Opened for traffic on 31 January 1861, the original railway line was closed in 1963. The bridge now carries the operational heritage Severn Valley Railway. Its design is almost identical to Albert Edward Bridge which also spans the Severn at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire, England, both having been designed by John Fowler. Victoria Bridge is a cast iron arch bridge, with four arch ribs each of nine parts bolted together. The arch elements were cast by the Coalbrookdale Company, and the bridge built by the company of Thomas Brassey, Samuel Morton Peto and Edward Betts. It features in the film 'The Thirty-nine Steps' with Robert Powell in the leading role.

A welcome place in the shade to have a cuppa on such a beautiful September day.

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"Road bridge over River Swale. Late C17, late C18 and C19. Rubble and ashlar stone. 3 semi-circular arches, triangular cutwaters rising to canted buttresses containing pedestrian retreats. The late C17 bridge is on the upstream side, of rubble construction, the northernmost arch of irregular shape, the other 2 having added late C18 voussoirs and cutwaters. The downstream half of the bridge is of late C18 construction, with roll moulding above the voussoirs. Both sides have a plain string course below parapets of coursed rubble of C19 date."

A place for lunch on a mild October day in 1990, in the company of a Grey Wagtail.

The gardens at Himley Hall in Staffordshire were extended by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown for James Ward, Viscount Dudley and Ward in the 1770s.

Just a little behind and to the right of this picture there is a sign saying, "Mind the bend or yul be in the cut."