Railway Viaduct
RAILWAY VIADUCT, A 426
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380144
- Date first listed:
- 28-Feb-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Railway Viaduct
- Statutory Address:
- RAILWAY VIADUCT, A 426
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380144
- Date first listed:
- 28-Feb-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Railway Viaduct
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAILWAY VIADUCT, A 426
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Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- RAILWAY VIADUCT, A 426
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Rugby (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 50173 76553
Details
SP57NW A 426
1641/9/10026 Rugby
28-FEB-00 Railway Viaduct
II
Railway viaduct.1839-40, by C.B Vignoles for the Midland Railway Company. Constructed od red brick with a facing of blue engineering brick (Staffordshire blues), except for the arch soffits; sandstone dressings. Eleven elliptical arches with tapering piers and stone imposts. Stone coping to the parapet. A completely unaltered early double track viaduct in very good condition.
This viaduct formed part of the Midland Counties Railway which was built between Derby and Nottingham via Trent Junction south to Leicester and Rugby. This section betweem Leicester and Rugby which gave access to Euston via the London and Birmingham Railway opened in June 1840. With opening the same year of the Morth Midland Railway from Derby and York this viaduct was for a time part of the main trunk route from London to Yorkshire, not fully replaced until the opening of the Great London Railway in 1850.The Midland Counties Railway was a founding constituent of the Midland Railway in 1844. C.B Vignoles was an important early railway engineer who only worked on British railways for a relatively short time. The Midland Counties Railway had only two large bridges on this line, Trent bridge which was rebuilt in the 1890's and this one which survives unaltered. This is partly because its decline in importance after 1850 and partly because of the closure between Rugby and Wigston Junction in 1962.The viaduct is and an excellent example of an early viaduct of the Stephenson school, Vignoles has worked on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and it meets the criteria for listing because of its age, design quality, unaltered nature and its association with an important engineer and railway company.
References: Jack Simmons and Gordon Biddle (eds), The Oxford Companion to Railway History, OUP, 1997, Midland Counties Railway and Vignoles
Listing NGR: SP5017376553
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 479640
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Simmons, J, Biddle, G, The Oxford Companion to British Railway History From 1603 to the 1990s, (1997)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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