Tag: Railways

A Viaduct for Staithes

A little more from my trawl through “The North Eastern Railway – Its Rise and Development“ – this time it’s a nice (and, as far as I can tell, unique) shot of the Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway’s viaduct over Staithes Beck, just south of the village itself.

Map extract from ‘Ordnance Survey Maps – Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952 – Yorkshire XIX.NW (circa 1895)‘. CC-BY-NC-SA by the The National Library of Scotland. Download here.

Described as a ‘light iron viaduct of novel construction’, it has an almost American feel to it and looks very out of place look to the modern eye. Given the failure of that particular line – even before the car and the van out competed it – It’s certainly not something we’ll ever see rebuilt again.