Victoria Railway Bridge is a Grade II* listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1985. A Industrial Railway bridge. 1 related planning application.
Victoria Railway Bridge
- WRENN ID
- vast-gargoyle-azure
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Sunderland
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1985
- Type
- Railway bridge
- Period
- Industrial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NZ35SW HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING Victoria Railway Bridge 4/17
G.V. II*
Railway bridge. 1838 by James Walker of Walker and Burges. Rusticated sandstone. 4 main arches, the most southerly spanning the Wear, and 3 minor at each end : main spans 100', 160', 144' and 100'; height from foundations to top of parapet, 156'6". Arches have voussoirs and bands; impost blocks to the minor arches. 3 semi-circular buttresses continue as refuges in the parapet. Massive coping to plinths of cutwaters. Historical note : Built for the Durham Junction Railway and completed on Victoria's coronation day, 28th June, it carried the main London-Newcastle line until 1868. Links the valley sides at their crest, and was modelled on Trajan's bridge at Alcantara although not a copy. Source: Tomlinson North Eastern Railway (Newcastle 1914) 227, 318, 319.
Listing NGR: NZ3201454540
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