Pipeline of Throckley Aqueduct, Heddon Banks

Image: © Andrew Curtis Taken: 21 Feb 2013

The 42" cast-iron pipe supported on iron columns runs alongside the bridge that takes the track running from the end of Heddon Banks to Close Lea over the cutting of the former tramway used to take stone from Killiebrigs Quarry. The house opposite is called West Acres. There is another photo of the pipe here Image Although the pipeline roughly follows the line of the track to the east (left), this is not the case to the west (right). There is actually a right-angled bend close to the right side of the photo where the pipe, close to the ground surface follows the boundary of the quarry, then bends again to continue its course across the lower part of the now-wooded Heddon Common. The iron pipe-line was completed in 1892 replacing earthenware pipes first laid in 1869 and the indication here is that the previous line was altered to cope with opening of the Quarry and its tramway around 1878.

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