Great Northern Railway Bridge Number 184 is a Grade II* listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. A Victorian Railway bridge.
Great Northern Railway Bridge Number 184
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-keep-flax
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Peterborough
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- Railway bridge
- Address
- Great Northern Railway Bridge Number 184, the Nene Viaduct, City of Peterborough
- OS grid reference
- TL 190 981
- Coordinates
- 52.56809, -0.24517
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Great Northern Railway Bridge Number 184 is a railway viaduct built in 1850 by engineer Lewis Cubbitt. It was strengthened in 1910 and 1914, with additional work done in 1924. The bridge is constructed of cast iron and white brick, featuring ashlar dressings. It has three shallow arches, each made up of six curved members acting as girders, supported by two sets of twelve cast iron baseless fluted Doric columns, which rest on two cast iron caissons sunk in the river. An ornate iron balustrade tops the bridge. The abutments are made of white brick with moulded ashlar details, while some areas have been patched with blue engineering bricks. The side sections of the bridge consist of blue brick around the arches. In 1924, another steel bridge was built to the west to double the capacity, but this section is not considered of special interest.
Local climate
Great Northern Railway Bridge Number 184 sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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