• Thumbnail for Gaunless Bridge
    Gaunless Bridge was a railway bridge on the Stockton and Darlington Railway. It was completed in 1823 and is one of the first railway bridges to be constructed...
    15 KB (1,531 words) - 12:34, 23 September 2024
  • engine. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Low Etherley. High Etherley Gaunless Bridge 54°39′N 1°44′W / 54.650°N 1.733°W / 54.650; -1.733 v t e...
    913 bytes (102 words) - 07:43, 28 July 2022
  • Thumbnail for Gaunless Viaduct
    Gaunless Viaduct, also known as the Lands Viaduct, was a railway viaduct in County Durham. It was designed by Thomas Bouch to carry the South Durham and...
    4 KB (377 words) - 19:50, 20 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for River Gaunless
    Coundon Burn Gaunless Bridge Gaunless Viaduct Swin Bridge A Potted History of West Auckland - Martin Connolly Media related to River Gaunless at Wikimedia...
    4 KB (218 words) - 03:37, 14 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for Skerne Bridge
    that George Stephenson should erect a stone and iron bridge. However, when the similar Gaunless Bridge he had designed had to be rebuilt after suffering...
    14 KB (1,095 words) - 16:52, 4 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for National Railway Museum
    physically large exhibits are the Stockton and Darlington Railway Gaunless Bridge and several stationary winding engines used on railway inclines. The...
    65 KB (7,387 words) - 18:14, 7 November 2024
  • village and is home to one restaurant, the Bridge Inn. The River Gaunless runs through Ramshaw. The name Gaunless itself is of later Norse origin, meaning...
    3 KB (186 words) - 21:00, 28 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Truss
    Truss (category Bridge components)
    Lenticular trusses, patented in 1878 by William Douglas (although the Gaunless Bridge of 1823 was the first of the type), have the top and bottom chords...
    30 KB (3,602 words) - 00:05, 5 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Stockton and Darlington Railway
    (15 m) high, and Stephenson designed an iron truss bridge to cross the River Gaunless. The Skerne Bridge over the River Skerne was designed by the Durham...
    96 KB (12,402 words) - 13:57, 4 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of railway bridges and viaducts in the United Kingdom
    and significant bridges of the United Kingdom's railways, past and present. Category:Railway bridges in the United Kingdom List of bridges in the United...
    87 KB (230 words) - 21:20, 13 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Swin Bridge
    Gaunless at Cockfield. It is important as an early example of the masonry arch skew bridge, and the first used to carry a railway. Most arch bridges are...
    9 KB (1,051 words) - 15:40, 11 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Skew arch
    Skew arch (redirect from Skew Bridge)
    Thomas Storey in 1830 in the bridge carrying the Haggerleases branch of the Stockton and Darlington Railway over the River Gaunless near Cockfield, County Durham...
    73 KB (8,387 words) - 12:23, 24 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thomas Bouch
    1863 (remainder), total cost £666,879) This included his viaduct over the Gaunless.) the Eden Valley Railway (Kirkby Stephen to Penrith, 22 miles, completed...
    15 KB (1,850 words) - 21:58, 18 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pont-y-Cafnau
    Pont-y-Cafnau (category Bridges completed in 1793)
    and is used as a footbridge. Gaunless Bridge, an iron railway bridge, built by Stephenson in 1823, and the first iron bridge to be built for a railway,...
    8 KB (751 words) - 19:41, 19 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bishop Auckland
    town and civil parish at the confluence of the River Wear and the River Gaunless in County Durham, England. It is 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Darlington...
    92 KB (9,058 words) - 08:26, 8 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway
    Remembered. Stainmore Railway Company. Smith, Martin (1994). British Railway Bridges & Viaducts. Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7110-2273-7. Wikimedia Commons...
    20 KB (2,399 words) - 07:50, 2 September 2024
  • River Balder River Lune River Wear River Browney River Deerness River Gaunless River Tyne River South Tyne River Allen River East Allen River West Allen...
    37 KB (2,533 words) - 13:12, 17 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Auckland Castle
    building. Auckland Castle occupies an area of flat ground between the River Gaunless and River Wear, south of their confluence. The town of Bishop Auckland...
    34 KB (2,652 words) - 16:10, 20 November 2024
  • river—the Gaunless—means "useless" in Old Norse; or a nearby river may have had the name "Clyde"—history does not record the name of the river Gaunless before...
    143 KB (17,049 words) - 00:37, 18 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of rivers of England
    Beck (R) River Browney (L) River Deerness (L) Stockley Beck (L) River Gaunless Bedburn Beck (R) Waskerley Beck (L) Bollihope Burn (R) Stanhope Burn (L)...
    87 KB (10,761 words) - 19:28, 15 October 2024