Healey Dell Viaduct
I must visit Healey Dell again in winter when there is less foliage obscuring this beautiful structure. The single track viaduct has eight arches and an iron span over a road but is 105' from trackbed to river so it is particularly graceful. I was grateful to the local resident who pointed out that there are three straight arches, and then the three over the River Spodden are skewed to be in line with the flow. The two most southerly arches then revert to straight again to cross the valley road. For all these reasons and more it is a Grade II listed structure that saw its last train in 1967 but now carries a nature trail and a hidden sewer pipe.
Location: Healey Dell Viaduct (former)
Original line: Facit Branch (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway)
Photographer: Mark Bartlett
Contact photographer: Mark Bartlett
Date: 20/07/2022
Image number: 81836
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