Sankey Viaduct

Sankey Viaduct

The Sankey Viaduct is a railway viaduct at Bradley Lane, Collins Green, Burtonwood parish, Warrington Borough, crossing the Sankey Brook into Earlestown, Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, it was built between 1828 and 1830 by George Stephenson for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company to enable the railway to cross the line of the Sankey Canal with sufficient clearance for the Mersey flats, the sailing vessels for which the canal was constructed.

Listed as a Grade I listed building as the earliest major railway viaduct in the world. [cite web |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?pid=1&id=216315 |title=Images of England: Sankey Viaduct |accessdate=2008-04-22 |publisher=English Heritage ] It is constructed from yellow and ginger sandstone and red brick, of 9 round-arched spandrels on sharply-battered piers. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this viaduct is known locally as The Nine Arches.

As the Sankey Canal was the first canal of the Industrial Revolution, its crossing by the first purpose-built passenger railway in the world by means of this viaduct makes this a site of great significance in transport history. Sadly the canal itself was filled with household rubbish in the 1970s.

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External links

* [http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?txtkeys1=Sankey]
* Warrington Borough Council. Listed Buildings, Sankey Viaduct. [http://www.warrington.gov.uk/news/udp/interactive/interactive2/written/app8.asp]
* [http://www.sthelens.gov.uk/website/nlwcih.nsf/secondperiod/6E5A85C7163F6FDB80256FCB0052F351?OpenDocument St Helens Council: Sankey Viaduct]
* [http://www.newton-le-willows.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=99&Itemid=27 Newton-le-Willows: Sankey Viaduct and Embankment]
* [http://www.engineering-timelines.com/scripts/results.asp?id=539 Engineering Timeline: Sankey Viaduct]
* [http://www.scars.org.uk/]


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