Dromore Viaduct, off Church Street, Dromore, Co Down, BT25

Dromore Viaduct is a seven-arched stone and brick railway bridge over the River Lagan just west of Dromore. The third and fourth arches from its NE end are carried over a riverside footpath, opened by Banbridge District Council in 2009. The fifth arch from that end spans the actual river. The abutments and piers are of rock-faced blackstone blocks embellished with rusticated and margined quoins. The blocks are generally brought to courses, but laid to regular courses on some of the piers, all of which are slightly tapered inwards from bottom to top. The piers either side of the river arch have curvilinear dressed granite cutwaters at both ends. Towards the tops of the piers, just below arch spring level, are projecting stones which formerly supported the timber falsework used in turning the arches. The arches are all identical, being of semicircular profile and comprising six header courses of brick apiece in their arch rings and soffits. The spandrels and parapets are of random rubble blackstone. The parapets are coped with large rock-faced sandstone blocks, chamfered and oversailing to the outside. The terminal piers at both ends are similarly detailed. The slightly curving deck formerly carried a single track railway line, long lifted and tarmaced over. High steel fences at both ends now prohibit entry to the deck. Setting The embankment has been lowered at the SW end of the bridge, but a short length survives as far as Church Road at NE. There are remnants of concrete mountings of erstwhile floodlights embedded in the ground immediately west side of the bridge. Much of the bridge is now smothered by ivy. The bridge runs to the east of and parellel with the A1 dual carriageway.