Ouseburn Viaduct carries the East Coast Main Line over the Ouseburn Valley through the East End of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Designed by architects John and Benjamin Green, it was originally built in the late 1830s for the Newcastle and North Shields Railway.[1] It is a Grade II* listed building.[2]
The viaduct is 918 ft (280 m) long and 108 ft (33 m) high with five arches (plus two approach arches) each of 116 ft (35 m) span. When originally built the viaducts were made of laminated timber construction on the Wiebeking system, whereby each arch was made from multiple layers of timbers held together by trenails and
supported on stone pillars.
The viaduct was rebuilt in iron between 1867 and 1869 by the Weardale Iron & Coal Company to the designs of engineer Thomas Elliot Harrison for the North Eastern Railway Company, doubling its width to accommodate four tracks but preserving the bridge's original appearance. It now carries the East Coast Main Line.[3]
It is one of three high level bridges in close proximity making the same crossing, with the Byker Viaduct carrying the Tyne and Wear Metro and then the Byker road bridge both to the south.
^"Railway Bridges Around Newcastle". Retrieved 14 December 2016.
^"Name: OUSEBURN VIADUCT WITH ACCOMMODATION ARCH List entry Number: 1120788". Historic England. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
^"Restoration of landmark Ouseburn viaduct wins top award". 12 April 2014.
OuseburnViaduct carries the East Coast Main Line over the Ouseburn Valley through the East End of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Designed by architects John and...
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the Ouseburn railway Viaduct, the Byker Viaduct carrying the Tyne and Wear Metro, and the Byker road bridge. Hadrian's Wall crossed the Ouseburn just...
bridges in close proximity making the same crossing, with the Ouseburn railway viaduct to the north and the Byker road bridge to the south. The bridge...
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the Ure until it meets Ouse Gill beck just below the village of Great Ouseburn, where it becomes the Ouse and flows south before exiting the county near...
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as filing first aid boxes until 1961 when it moved to Stepney bank in Ouseburn. In 1937, the Council decided that the hospital was no longer fit to house...
a shelter. Under the management of a charitable foundation called the Ouseburn Trust it is currently used for heritage tours. The Thames Tunnel, built...
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