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Description: Copley Viaduct

Address: Copley Viaduct Railway Terrace Copley Halifax West Yorkshire

Grade: II

Group detail: Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Copley

Full description:
Railway viaduct crossing the River Calder, the Calder and Hebble Navigation and Wakefield Road. c1851. For the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company. Snecked rock faced sandstone. 23 arches in all on tall piers: 15 semi-circular, with rock faced voussoirs brought to course and 4 at each end, wider, segmental, with similar voussoirs in Ashlar. Easternmost arch over Wakefield Road considerably flatter. Plain band at impost and cornice level with parapet above. Mostly in the parish of Halifax. The Sowerby Bridge to Halifax Branch line was opened 1 January 1852. Sowerby Bridge Chamber of Trade and Commerce Official Tourist Guide, p.25.