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railway bridge, Garsdale
site name:-   Settle and Carlisle Railway
locality:-   Garsdale Head
civil parish:-   Garsdale (formerly Yorkshire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway bridge
coordinates:-   SD79399254
1Km square:-   SD7992
10Km square:-   SD79


photograph
BJR71.jpg  Settle and Carlisle Railway across the A684, Kendal to Hawes road.
(taken 9.8.2005)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"RAILWAY BRIDGE APPROXIMATELY 200 METRES NORTH OF DANDRYMIRE VIADUCT / / HAWES ROAD / GARSDALE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484491 / SD7939392548"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Railway bridge carrying Settle to Carlisle railway over Hawes Road. 1869-75, for the Midland Railway Company; company architect JH Sanders, chief engineer JS Crossly, resident engineer J Underwood. Coursed sandstone rubble. Segmental arch with impost bands carried through, rubble voussoirs, terminal piers, string-course and parapets with flat coping. Sloped and battered abutments with segmental-headed blank arches. Forms part of raised structure comprised of the Dandrymire Viaduct approx. 200m south (qv) and raised embankment to which the bridge is attached."

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