Paddock Viaduct

A trip in to Huddersfield to a DIY shop this afternoon. MrM wanted to buy yet more wood, and I bought a couple of sturdy locks for the garden sheds. Recently there have been reports of thefts of garden tools from the area where we live, and though the locks will only be a small deterrent, a deterrent is better than nothing.

On the way we passed the Paddock Viaduct, a curved railway viaduct spanning the Colne Valley. Apparently it's a Grade II listed building. It has stone arches at either end, but four large central spans formed of lattice steel girders. When it was constructed in the late 1840s, it had to cross a heavily built up area including two roads, the river, the canal, and several industrial buildings. There wasn't enough land to construct the larger number of piers needed for a conventional stone viaduct.
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