Ouse Valley Viaduct
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 5 " N , 0 ° 6 ′ 52" W.
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| use | Brighton Main Line | |
| Crossing of | River Ouse | |
| place | between Haywards Heath and Balcombe | |
| construction | Brick masonry | |
| overall length | 450 m | |
| Number of openings | 37 | |
| Longest span | 9.1 m | |
| height | 29 m | |
| vehicles per day | approx. 110 train journeys daily | |
| building-costs | £ 38,500 (1841) | |
| opening | July 1841 | |
| Status | restored in 1996 monument |
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| planner | John Urpeth Rastrick, David Mocatta | |
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The Ouse Valley Viaduct , also Balcombe Viaduct called, is one of brick masonry railroad bridge in West Sussex , England , which the railway line London-Brighton over the River Ouse leads. It lies between Haywards Heath in the south and Balcombe (West Sussex) in the north. The viaduct , opened in 1841, is 450 m long, 29 meters high and is now a Grade II * protected structure.
construction
The Ouse Valley Viaduct consists of 37 round arches, each 9.1 meters wide, on 36 pillars. To reduce the number of bricks required, each pillar was provided with an arched opening. During the construction, a total of 11 million small-format bricks that had been imported from the Netherlands and delivered by ship across the River Ouse were walled up in a cross bond .
At both ends of the viaduct there are massive abutments , each of which has 4 stone-clad decorative towers with a square floor plan. The balustrades that border the bridge on both sides are also made of stone .
The viaduct was restored in 1996 with funds from the Railway Heritage Trust and English Heritage , among others .
Web links
proof
- ^ Geoffrey Body: Railway of the Southern Region . Patrick Stephens, 1989, ISBN 1-85260-297-X . p.141.
- ^ Richard Tinker: Trusting in Trusts: The Railway Heritage Trust: conservation and change . Railway Heritage Trust. Retrieved August 8, 2016.
- ↑ OUSE VALLEY RAILWAY VIADUCT THE OUSE VALLEY RAILWAY VIADUCT List entry number: 1366101 . Historic England. Retrieved August 8, 2016.
- ^ John Howard Turner: The London Brighton and South Coast Railway 1 Origins and formation . Batsford, 1977, ISBN 0-7134-0275-X . P. 124