Central Railway Viaduct is a Grade II listed building in the Salford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 January 1980. Viaduct. 6 related planning applications.

Central Railway Viaduct

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Salford
Constituency
Salford MP: Rebecca Long Bailey (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 January 1980
Type
Viaduct
Address
Central Railway Viaduct, New Bailey Street, M3 5ET
OS grid reference
SJ 832 985
Coordinates
53.48304, -2.25461
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Central Railway Viaduct is a railway viaduct built in 1865, designed by engineer Sturges Meek for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. It features cast-iron columns that support a later steel deck, along with a cast-iron parapet. The structure is carried by Doric columns and includes a plain panelled parapet and lateral I-section steel beams. The viaduct was constructed to extend the railway line to Manchester Victoria.

Local climate

Central Railway Viaduct sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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