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Southern part of the viaduct which is in gridsquare TL2414 - the gridline crosses the viaduct just south of the road.
©Christine Matthews
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©Nigel Chadwick
Dist:0.2km<br/>In Welwyn Garden City.
©Timothy Baldwin
Dist:0.4km<br/>Not much of the school buildings can be seen here, but the playing fields are visible. Taken from a passing train on the East Coast Main Line.
©Timothy Baldwin
Dist:0.4km<br/>Seen from the Welwyn Viaduct on the ECML
©Nigel Chadwick
Dist:0.4km<br/>Historic lake, now a nature reserve
©Stuart Warrington
Dist:0.4km<br/>The viaduct was completed in 1850 by the Great Northern Railway to take its new line to the north from London over the valley of the River Mimram. A contemporary newspaper report on the opening of the railway from The Times described it as "...consisting of 42 arches each 30 feet wide and 97 feet high and built at a cost between £70,000 and £80,000. The masonry has all the appearance of great solidity..." As well it might as 159 years further on it still has all the appearance of great solidity!
©Nigel Cox
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©John Salmon
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©John Salmon
Dist:0.5km<br/>The viaduct has 40 brick arches and carries the East Coast Main Line over the River Mimram valley, just to the north of Welwyn Garden City. The Road is Digswell Park Road and lies just within the southern boundary of TL2415. Half of the viaduct visible in the picture is actually in TL2414.
©Simon Davies
Dist:0.5km<br/>It was designed by William Cubitt and took two years to build. Queen Victoria opened it in 1850. The viaduct is around 1,560ft (475m) long and comprises forty arches of 30ft (9.1m) span, and is 100ft (30m) high from ground level to trackbed. It is built of brick fired from brick clay quarried on site during construction.
©Robert Edwards
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©David Howard
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©Nigel Chadwick
Dist:0.6km<br/>The viaduct was completed in 1850 by the Great Northern Railway to take its new line to the north from London over the valley of the River Mimram. A contemporary newspaper report on the opening of the railway from The Times described it as "...consisting of 42 arches each 30 feet wide and 97 feet high and built at a cost between £70,000 and £80,000. The masonry has all the appearance of great solidity..." As well it might as 159 years further on it still has all the appearance of great solidity! This is the view of 10 of the 42 arches taken looking along Hertford Road.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.6km<br/>Viewed looking downstream from the Digswell Park Road bridge.
©Nigel Cox

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