To install click the Add extension button. That's it.

The source code for the WIKI 2 extension is being checked by specialists of the Mozilla Foundation, Google, and Apple. You could also do it yourself at any point in time.

4,5
Kelly Slayton
Congratulations on this excellent venture… what a great idea!
Alexander Grigorievskiy
I use WIKI 2 every day and almost forgot how the original Wikipedia looks like.
Live Statistics
English Articles
Improved in 24 Hours
Added in 24 Hours
What we do. Every page goes through several hundred of perfecting techniques; in live mode. Quite the same Wikipedia. Just better.
.
Leo
Newton
Brights
Milds

Willington Dene Viaduct

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Willington Dene Viaduct
Willington Dene Viaduct
Coordinates54°59′39″N 1°30′17″W / 54.99404°N 1.504797°W / 54.99404; -1.504797
CarriesTyne and Wear Metro
CrossesWallsend Burn
LocaleWallsend, Tyne and Wear, England
History
Opened18 June 1839
Location
Map

Willington Dene Viaduct carries the Tyne and Wear Metro railway over the Wallsend Burn between Wallsend and Howdon, Tyne and Wear. Designed by architects John and Benjamin Green, it was originally built in the late 1830s for the Newcastle & North Shields Railway. [1] It is a Grade II listed building.[2]

The viaduct is 1,048 ft (319 m) long and 76 ft (23 m) high with seven segmental arches each of 120 ft (37 m) span. When originally built the viaducts were made of laminated timber construction on the Wiebeking system supported on tall stone pillars and cost £25,000. Each arch was made from 14 layers of 22 by 3.5 inches (559 mm × 89 mm) timbers held together by trenails and built by Messrs. Robson. A paper on the viaducts's design won Benjamin Green a silver Telford Medal from the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1841.

The viaduct was rebuilt in wrought iron between 1867 and 1869 by the Weardale Iron & Coal Company to the designs of engineer Thomas Elliot Harrison, preserving the bridge's original shape and form. It now carries the Tyne and Wear Metro rapid transport system between Newcastle and North Shields.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Railway Bridges Around Newcastle". Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  2. ^ "Name: WILLINGTON VIADUCT List entry Number: 1025323". Historic England. Retrieved 14 December 2016.

54°59′35″N 1°30′27″W / 54.993°N 1.5075°W / 54.993; -1.5075 (Willington Dene Viaduct)

This page was last edited on 2 November 2023, at 17:25
Basis of this page is in Wikipedia. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported License. Non-text media are available under their specified licenses. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. WIKI 2 is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wikimedia Foundation.