Thinhope Viaduct
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Thinhope Viaduct
Image: © Tiger Taken: 30 Oct 2015
Two of the elliptical skew arches of the viaduct built in 1852 for the Alston branch railway and now carrying the South Tyne Trail, viewed from the side road to Knarsdale Church and the Kirkstyle Inn. Pevsner's revisers in 1992 suggested that the engineer responsible may have been George Barclay Bruce. The left-hand arch carries the trackbed over the Thinhope Burn which flows into the South Tyne and the broader arch on the right crosses the A689 road leading from Alston to Brampton, which itself crosses the burn by an older bridge.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.88275
Longitude
-2.507633