Railway Viaduct, Embank ment and Overbridge to the East of Church Farm

The Railway Viaduct, Embankment, and Overbridge to the East of Church Farm is a structure built between 1851 and 1852 to support the Rowsley to Buxton extension of the Midland Railway over the River Derwent. It is constructed from massive coursed gritstone with rock-faced dressings. The eastern end features a slightly curved viaduct section with four semi-circular headed arches that spring from rock-faced padstones, which are set on rectangular piers rising from rounded cutwaters. Above a plain band course, there is a shallow parapet topped with plain 20th-century railings. On the northern side, shallow raking buttresses support the abutments at both ends of the viaduct. To the west, a substantial embankment is faced with masonry on its northern side and includes a narrow stilted semi-circular arched opening over a trackway at the western end. This arch is flanked by shallow pilaster-like buttresses, with downward sloping splayed and coped abutments that end at plain stone piers.