Roodee Viaduct

2023. North west corner of abutment, showing part of an 1870-1 girder. Are the sandstone abutment and cast iron corbels part of the 1840s bridge?

2023. View from north west corner. 1870-1 girders on right

2023. View from west. 1899-1900 girders on right

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2023. View from footway attached to main bridge, looking south west. The impressive brick bridge serves only to carry Curzon Park North across the railway to a golf club. Behind it is a pipe bridge

2023. Viaduct arches at northern corner of racecourse. The c.1900 portion is on the left.

in Chester

A series of brick arches runs alongside the Roodee racecourse, and crosses the River Dee on lattice girders which are built on the site of the cast iron Dee Railway Bridge designed by Robert Stephenson, which failed catastrophically in 1847.

Various interim repairs were carried to the the river crossing, and in 1870-1 a new bridge was constructed with wrought iron lattice girders, having cylindrical wrought iron river piers.

Additional girder spans and piers were added alongside in 1899-1900, and the masonry viaduct was widened as part of the track doubling work. The older part of the viaduct is now disused.

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