Rawthey Viaduct

There were three viaducts in Cumbria on the Little LNWR route, the third of which was the Rawthey Viaduct.

A single-span iron bridge, it carried the Clapham to Lowgill line over the River Rawthey. (SW of Sedbergh). It's now owned by the Gas Board who run a pipeline across it.

So I took the dog for a walk along the Dales Way to have a look at it, as I just had to complete the set.

Lowgill Viaduct

Further down the line from the Waterside Viaduct is the Low gill Viaduct, which consists of eleven semi-circular arches, each with a 45 feet span. From end-to-end, it is 620 feet and carried the Ingleton-Lowgill line 100 feet above the stream below.

The Waterside and Lowgill Viaducts were part of  the Ingleton Branch of the London & North Western Railway. Opened to passengers in September 1861 it went from Clapham, through Ingleton, roughly following the route of the River Lune, via Kirkby Lonsdale, Barbon, Middleton-on-Lune, Sedbergh and Lowgill, before joining what is now the West Coast main line at Lowgill, just south of Tebay.

Passenger services ceased on 30th January 1954, but the line remained open for freight traffic until 1st March 1965. The track was lifted in 1967.

Made from the same material and to a similar design to the Waterside Viaduct, I had to make a model of the Lowgill Viaduct as well.