Dinting Viaduct (a.k.a Dinting Arches). (HAJ @ 11m 42ch - 11m 62ch) (Ref: 030595)
This view (the original is a watercolour by J M Baynes in 1846) shows the viaduct as originally constructed in 1844, with four main laminated timber arches, each of four ribs, and flanked by eleven brick-built, semi-circular approach arches, each with a fifty-foot span - four at one end and seven at the other. By 1856, the level of rail traffic and the weight of the trains had increased so much that the existing timber viaducts were considered inadequate, and in 1859 wrought-iron girders were installed to replace the timber arches.
ROMA ID: 030595E