On this day in 1987, 37 years ago, the last scheduled train passed over Farnley Viaduct, the tight curvature rendering it unsuitable for the overhead electrification equipment being installed between King's Cross and Leeds.
Percy Beck Viaduct is hidden amongst the trees of Flatts Woods in Barnard Castle. Trains for Stainmore and Middleton-in-Teesdale crossed it as they headed west out of the town’s station which has been levelled to host an industrial estate.
July 2008Forgotten Relics records and celebrates the UK's disused railway structures, still standing as monuments to the period of ambition, courage and endeavour during which they were built.
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