Railway Viaduct is a Grade II listed building in the Hyndburn local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1984. Viaduct. 1 related planning application.
Railway Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- burning-gutter-crag
- 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, Blackburn Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 759 288
- Coordinates
- 53.75559, -2.36695
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Railway Viaduct, built in 1847 by J.S. Perring and D.A. Donaldson, carries the East Lancashire Railway and was restored between 1866 and 1867. It features a curving line of 19 semicircular brick arches, originally 21, each with a span of 40 feet and a height of 60 feet. The viaduct has stone plinths, gritstone facings, rusticated voussoirs, a roll-moulded string course, and a parapet. At the south end, the line crosses Blackburn Road on a segmental-arched bridge with battered rock-faced abutments. At the north end, there are three similar arches, with the central arch spanning Whalley Road, now separated from the main structure by a short embankment. The west side of the fifth arch has a keystone inscribed with "RH" M 1847, indicating Richard Hacking, the Manager.
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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