The 1850 Nene viaduct south of Peterborough station. Victorian cast iron construction. The later 1924 steel truss bridge is in the foreground.
The Nene Viaduct is a railway bridge immediately south of Peterborough railway station in Cambridgeshire, Eastern England. It was built to carry the Great Northern Railway across the River Nene. It is a Grade II listed building It was built in 1850 by father and son Sir William Cubitt and Joseph Cubitt for the Great Northern Railway to carry their main line across the River Nene just south of Peterborough. The contractor was Thomas Bassey. It is bridge number 184 on what is today the East Coast Main Line. The railway line was quadrupled in 1924, at which time a second bridge, seen here in the foreground, was constructed alongside the Nene Viaduct. The second is a steel truss bridge and is not considered by Historic England to be of special interest
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Location: South of Peterborough railway station on the River Nene, cambridgeshire , UK
Photo credit: © patrick nairne / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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