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Smardale Viaduct, Crosby Garrett
Smardale Viaduct
site name:-   Settle and Carlisle Railway
site name:-   Scandal Beck
civil parish:-   Crosby Garrett (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Waitby (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway viaduct
locality type:-   viaduct
coordinates:-   NY73310821
1Km square:-   NY7308
10Km square:-   NY70


photograph
BPA91.jpg (taken 18.4.2008)  

hearsay:-  
13 arches, 131 feet high, 237 yards long.
Built 1870-75. The valley bed was not rock as expected; the piers go down through 45 feet of clay to find a footing.

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