Railway Viaduct is a Grade II listed building in the Hyndburn local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1984. Viaduct.
Railway Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- nether-threshold-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hyndburn
- Constituency
- Hyndburn MP: Sarah Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1984
- Type
- Viaduct
- Address
- Railway Viaduct, Coach Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 741 283
- Coordinates
- 53.75073, -2.39349
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Railway Viaduct, built around 1847 to carry the East Lancashire Railway across Tinker Brook, was designed by engineers J.S. Perring and J.A. Donaldson. It features rock-faced stone piers and seven brick arches, each spanning 40 feet and standing 50 feet high. The viaduct is topped with a stone band and a solid parapet. At the west end, there is an ashlar bridge with a low segmental arch made of rusticated voussoirs. The spandrels display radiating masonry, and there are balustrades and piers at both ends, which include coved alcoves and panelled entablatures with rounded coping stones. This bridge spans a lane that was formerly the drive to Foxhill Bank House.
Local climate
Railway Viaduct sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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