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railway, victorian, architecture, viaduct, arch, england, landmark, bridge, stone, river, uk, old, transport, britain, tree, countryside, valley, structure, landscape, english, north, nature, british, visitor, forest, outdoors, transportation, rural, orange, south, lambley, pennines, east, season, northumberland, daytime, deciduous, tyne, disused, tynedale, cloudy, canopy, woodland, woods, yellow, railroad, autumn, attraction, blue, sky Later a part of the Great Central Railway, the viaduct supported Sheffield Victoria Station. Main line rail passenger services crossing the Wicker Arches ceased in January 1970 with the closure of Sheffield Victoria and its service to Manchester, however the viaduct still carried the local services to Huddersfield via Penistone until they too were diverted, via Barnsley, in the 1980s. The only other passenger services to cross the bridge thereafter were football excursion trains to Wadsley Bridge for matches played at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough ground. This traffic ceased in 1996. The Victoria station buildings and platforms were demolished in 1989, however freight services continue to use the, now single, line across the viaduct to reach the Stocksbridge Steel works.


Size: 3464px × 5196px
Location: Lincolnshire
Photo credit: © Steve Welsh / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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