Park Parade Railway Viaduct, Eastern Crossing of the River Tame is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1986. A C19 Viaduct. 1 related planning application.

Park Parade Railway Viaduct, Eastern Crossing of the River Tame

WRENN ID
silver-shingle-marsh
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tameside
Constituency
Ashton-under-Lyne MP: Angela Rayner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 February 1986
Type
Viaduct
OS grid reference
SJ 937 984
Coordinates
53.48263, -2.09591
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Park Parade Railway Viaduct, located at the eastern crossing of the River Tame, is a railway viaduct built around 1845 for the Oldham, Ashton-Under-Lyne and Guide Bridge Junction Railway. It is constructed of rock-faced stone and features a total of seven arches that span the River Tame and Lower Alma Street. The arches are segmental rusticated voussoir keystone arches, supported by square piers that have shaped cutwaters and springing bands. The parapet wall is adorned with an ashlar band and coping.

Local climate

Park Parade Railway Viaduct, Eastern Crossing of the River Tame sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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