Railway Viaduct Over River Calder at SE 394251 is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1988. Railway viaduct.
Railway Viaduct Over River Calder at SE 394251
- WRENN ID
- proud-bailey-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley MP: Yvette Cooper (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1988
- Type
- Railway viaduct
- Address
- Railway Viaduct Over River Calder at SE 394251, Leeds
- OS grid reference
- SE 393 250
- Coordinates
- 53.72082, -1.40456
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The railway viaduct carries the Leeds-Derby line of the North Midland Railway over the River Calder. It was built in 1840, with George Stephenson as the consulting engineer. The structure is made of dressed sandstone and brick and features five semicircular arches, with the outermost arches blending into the embankments at either end. The arches are adorned with rusticated stepped voussoirs and a roll-moulded band, topped by an ashlar parapet. There are two piers in the river that have convex cutwaters, and the soffits of the arches are constructed of brick.
Local climate
Railway Viaduct Over River Calder at SE 394251 receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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