Now, the obvious use for a viaduct is to carry a railway line.
And my Wikipedia offers up that the “Stockport Viaduct carries the West Coast Main Line across the valley of the River Mersey.
It is one of the largest brick structures in the United Kingdom and a major structure of the early railway age…. was designed by George Watson Buck in consultation with the architect John Lowe for the Manchester and Birmingham Railway.
Work began in March 1839 and despite its scale and flooding from the Mersey, the viaduct was completed in December 1840 and services commenced the same month.
Roughly 11 million bricks were used in its construction; at the time of its completion, it was the world's largest viaduct and a major feat of engineering. The viaduct is 33.85 metres high.
Since March 1975, Stockport Viaduct has been a Grade II* listed structure; it remains one of the world's biggest brick structures”.*
All well and good, but like so many big structures it has attracted other uses, from graffiti artist to a place to place interesting and mystery “electrical things”.
The electrical things will no doubt be instantly recognizable to some, who I hope will come forward with an explanation.
We shall see.
Location; Stockport,
Pictures; The Stockport Viaduct, 2021, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
*The Stockport Viaduct, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockport_Viaduct
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