Stockport Viaduct, Stockport
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Matthew Wilkinson / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
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6945 x 4635 px | 58.8 x 39.2 cm | 23.2 x 15.5 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
5 April 2015Location:
Stockport, Greater ManchesterMore information:
Stockport Viaduct is a large brick-built bridge which carries the West Coast Main Line across the valley of the River Mersey, in Stockport, Greater Manchester. It is the largest brick structure in western Europe and was designed by George Watson Buck for the Manchester and Birmingham Railway and completed in 1840. The viaduct is 33.85 metres (111.1 ft) high. At the time of its construction it was the largest viaduct in the world, and it represents a major feat of Victorian engineering and a key pioneering structure of the railway age. It is currently a Grade II listed structure, and remains one of the world's biggest brick structures.
