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Bridge
Rectory Junction Viaduct
Coordinates52°57′04″N 1°03′15″W / 52.9511°N 1.0541°W / 52.9511; -1.0541
CarriesNottingham-Grantham Line
CrossesRiver Trent
Other name(s)Radcliffe Viaduct
Heritage statusGrade II listed
Characteristics
MaterialCast iron
Longest span110 feet (34 m)
Clearance below24 feet (7.3 m)
History
Opened1850
Location
Nottingham to Grantham Line
Legend
Midland Main Line
Great Central Main Line
to Nottingham Victoria
Nottingham Nottingham Express Transit
Nottingham London Road
Nottingham Suburban Railway
Nottingham Racecourse
Derbyshire and Staffordshire extension
Netherfield
Nottingham–Lincoln line
Rectory Junction Viaduct
River Trent
to Cotgrave Colliery
Radcliffe
to Melton Mowbray via Barnstone
Bingham
Aslockton
Elton and Orston
GN&LNW Joint Railway
Bottesford
Woolsthorpe branch
Sedgebrook
Poacher Line
East Coast Main Line
Grantham Ambergate Yard
Grantham
East Coast Main Line

Rectory Junction Viaduct, also known as the Radcliffe Viaduct, crosses the River Trent between Netherfield and Radcliffe on Trent near Nottingham. It is a Grade II listed building.

History

The bridge was built in 1850 by Clayton & Shuttleworth of Lincoln on the Nottingham-Grantham Line for the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston and Eastern Junction Railway.

The Trent Navigation Company demanded a minimum clear span of 100 feet (30 m), so the railway company built a 110 feet (34 m) cast iron arch. The clearance above the water is 24 feet (7.3 m). The iron arch was formed of six ribs, constructed in eight segments.

The approach viaduct, originally constructed in timber and comprising 32 spans, was rebuilt in brick in 1909-1910 by Alexander Ross. The brick viaduct comprises 28 spans, eighteen are 24 ft 11 ins, and ten are 25 ft 7 ins.

The internal cast iron ribs were encased in concrete by British Rail in 1981 to increase the strength of the bridge, but the original cast iron ribs on the exterior were left exposed, leaving the bridge appearance little changed.


Next crossing upstream River Trent Next crossing downstream
Lady Bay Bridge
 A6011 		 Rectory Junction Railway Bridge
Grid reference SK636397		 Gunthorpe Bridge
 A6097 

See also

References

  1. Jacobs, G., Ed (2005) Quail Track Diagrams: Book 4: Midlands and North West, 2nd Edition, Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps
  2. Historic England. "RAILWAY BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER TRENT (1249646)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
  3. The Railway Magazine. Vol. 50. 1922.
  4. Masonry as Applied to Civil Engineering: Being a Practical Treatise on the Design and Construction of Engineering Works in Stone and Heavy Concrete. F. Noel Taylor
  5. "Engineering Timelines - Radcliffe-on-Trent Viaduct".
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