Lowgill Railway Viaduct. Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe.
The viaduct at Lowgill, built in 1859, is grade 2 was designed by Joseph Locke and John Errington. The Lowgill viaduct consists of eleven semi-circular arches of 45 feet span and is built on a curve. The height above the stream, Dillicar Beck, is 100 feet, and it is 620 feet long. The viaduct is on the Ingleton Branch of the North Western Railway, opened in 1860, which went from Clapham, through Ingleton, Kirkby Lonsdale, Barbon, Middleton-on-Lune, Sedbergh and Lowgill, before joining what is now the West Coast main line, just south of Tebay. Passenger services ceased on 30th January 1954, and the line finally closed in 1967. The line roughly follows the route of the River Lune from Tebay to Kirkby Lonsdale.
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Location: Lowgill Railway Viaduct. Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe.
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Keywords: arches, disused, errington, john, joseph, locke, lowgill, north, railway, sandstone, viaduct, western
