The Blisworth Arch is a railway bridge in Blisworth, Northamptonshire, in eastern England. It was designed by Robert Stephenson for the London and Birmingham Railway and completed in 1837. It is a grade II listed building and a significant local landmark.[1]
^Historic England. "Railway bridge over Northampton Road (1040976)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
The BlisworthArch is a railway bridge in Blisworth, Northamptonshire, in eastern England. It was designed by Robert Stephenson for the London and Birmingham...
Blisworth is a village and civil parish in the West Northamptonshire, England. The West Coast Main Line, from London Euston to Manchester and Scotland...
Roade Cutting, also known as Blisworth Cutting, is a railway earthwork and 15.2-hectare (38-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest along...
was determined to preserve. From Blisworth, at the north end of the cutting, the railway crosses the BlisworthArch then follows much the same route as...
Benjamin Bevan. Two tunnels also had to be built, at Braunston and Blisworth. The Blisworth Tunnel caused great problems, and was unfinished when the rest...
1796. However, Blisworth Tunnel continued to cause problems, collapsing in January 1796. The canal was opened from Braunston to Blisworth in 1797. The canal...
Northamptonshire Rectory alterations 1854 Church of St John the Baptist, Blisworth, Northamptonshire, restoration 1856 Church of St Mary, Little Addington...
stations (served by all trains) were at Watford, Tring, Leighton, Wolverton, Blisworth, Weedon, Rugby and Coventry. Additionally, "second-class" intermediate...
traffic on the line. By the early 1950s, the limited services between Blisworth and Banbury Merton Street were attracting very few passengers and this...
Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway (SMJR)) was opened between Blisworth and Farthinghoe. It passed roughly east–west along the Tove Valley through...
in the southernmost two arches, and so these were replaced by two girder spans each of 35 feet (11 metres), while the third arch was filled with bricks...
the railway near Blisworth in Northamptonshire, further south, but does not survive. The four are believed to be the earliest flying arch bridges over a...
factors in encouraging industrial growth in the area was the opening of the Blisworth to Peterborough Railway (the Northampton and Peterborough Railway) in...
cut chiefly in Oxford clay. Middle Jurassic rocks, in particular the Blisworth limestone and cornbrash, form strong features in the lands bordering the...
line ran northwards on an embankment before crossing the valley on the nine-arch Helmdon Viaduct over the River Tove. Helmdon was the nearest station for...
Cranstone, The Moira Furnace, 1985, p.9 Northamptonshire's First Railway, The Blisworth Hill Railway 1800–1805[permanent dead link] Arthur Young's Tour from Birmingham...
1850. The London and Birmingham Railway had already built a branch from Blisworth to serve Northampton and extend to Peterborough. The success of this,...
of PLU in Huntingdonshire. Towcester PLU Abthorpe, Adstone, Blakesley, Blisworth, Bradden, Cold Higham, Easton Neston, Gayton, Green's Norton, Litchborough...
condition of the river gradually deteriorated, and the arrival of the Blisworth to Peterborough Railway in 1845 further reduced profitability. Flooding...
brief scheduled London, Midland and Scottish Railway service in 1932 from Blisworth railway station to Stratford Old Town railway station over the former...
the South-West. No. xxii. and xxiii. showing different Portions of the Blisworth Cutting. No. xxiv. The Weedon Viaduct, from the East. No. xxv. and xxvi...
engaged under Robert Stephenson as assistant resident engineer for the Blisworth section of what is now the London & North-Western main line from London...
valley of the River Great Ouse a little to the north, the company built a six-arch viaduct in 1838, at a cost then of £38,000. The viaduct was also designed...
into a Midland Railway stronghold. Twin train sheds, each consisting of an arched roof supported on segmental iron frames springing from cast steel columns...
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