Series of 16 Strainer Arches in Railway Cutting at Sd 581 192 is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1984. Railway engineering. 1 related planning application.
Series of 16 Strainer Arches in Railway Cutting at Sd 581 192
- WRENN ID
- eternal-passage-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chorley
- Constituency
- Chorley MP: Sir Lindsay Hoyle (Spk)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1984
- Type
- Railway engineering
- Address
- Series of 16 Strainer Arches in Railway Cutting at Sd 581 192, Preston Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 581 192
- Coordinates
- 53.66803, -2.63463
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This structure consists of a series of 16 strainer or "flying" arches located in a railway cutting for the Euxton Section of the Bolton and Preston Railway, built in 1842. The arches are made of punched gritstone, each spanning 26 feet 9 inches and measuring 18 inches in width, with irregular intervals of approximately 15 feet. The segmental arches support solid spandrels, which slope down to a central span made solely of voussoirs with a flat coping. This design represents a rare, though not unique, example of contemporary railway engineering, used here as an alternative to a tunnel that was too difficult to construct. The arches are likely attributed to the engineer J. Alexander Adie.
Local climate
Series of 16 Strainer Arches in Railway Cutting at Sd 581 192 sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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