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...
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Coundon Burn Gaunless Bridge Gaunless Viaduct Swin Bridge A Potted History of West Auckland - Martin Connolly Media related to River Gaunless at Wikimedia...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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physically large exhibits are the Stockton and Darlington Railway Gaunless Bridge and several stationary winding engines used on railway inclines. The...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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Stockton & Darlington Railway (S&DR) route over the ridge into the River Gaunless valley was effected by the Brusselton Incline, west of Shildon, but the...
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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...
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used rope haulage, the near-level section between them over the River Gaunless, had horse haulage rather than locomotives. Initially, the ropes used were...
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Thomas Bouch (section Railway and bridge designer)
1863 (remainder), total cost £666,879) This included his viaduct over the Gaunless.) the Eden Valley Railway (Kirkby Stephen to Penrith, 22 miles, completed...
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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...
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Remembered. Stainmore Railway Company. Smith, Martin (1994). British Railway Bridges & Viaducts. Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7110-2273-7. Wikimedia Commons...
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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...
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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...
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name meaning "cliff on the Clyde". It is thought 'Clyde' may be the river Gaunless' old name. Auckland is popularly nicknamed the "City of Sails" or the "Queen...
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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)...
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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...
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