Railway Viaduct, Crawfordsburn Country Park, Crawfordsburn, Bangor, Co Down

A five-arch stone and brick viaduct carries the double-track Belfast-Bangor railway high over Crawfordsburn Glen. The abutments and piers are of rock-faced sandstone blocks laid to regular courses and embellished with rusticated, margined and vee-jointed quoins. The slender piers are slightly tapered to all sides. A moulded sandstone string course runs around the tops of the abutments and piers at arch spring level. There are buttresses to the ends of both abutments, detailed as the piers. The arches are of equal size and semicircular profile. Footpaths run under the first, fourth and fifth arches from the west end, and the river also flows under the fourth arch. The arch voussoirs are detailed as the arch/pier quoins and the soffits are of brick. The spandrels are of random sandstone blocks. A cut sandstone string course runs along the base of the parapet and continues as copings to the wing walls. The deck is cantilevered out to each side in reinforced concrete, with a lattice-steel handrail along both sides. The railings terminate in sandstone terminal piers detailed as the abutments and piers. Wing walls, detailed as the spandrels, curve out at both ends. The sandstone copings to the NE wall have been replaced with cast concrete blocks. A metal sign on one of the piers records this as bridge no.363. Close to the east end of the viaduct is a single arched underpass with detailing similar to viaduct. North side has stone retaining wing walls and replacement reconstituted stone parapet; arch blocked up. South side not viewed. Setting Crawfordsburn Glen is a small wooded valley leading toward the sea. There is a small river running through it and it forms part of Crawfordsburn Country Park.