Published North Pennines Heritage Trust 1998, ISBN No. 0 9513535 5 1
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This volume provides two papers detailing the story of this famous viaduct across the River South Tyne which opened in 1852 on the Haltwhistle to Alston branch railway.
Robert Forsythe contributes the history of the branch and of the viaducts thereon. These are all dramatic structures, that at Burnstones even has one more arch on one side than the other. At Lambley, the line's largest viaduct crossed the River South Tyne. Having become very derelict during the 1980s, a partnership of agencies restored the structure in the mid 1990s. Charles Blackett-Ord as the consulting engineer involved provides a technical account of the project. It may now be walked across as part of the South Tyne Trail and a guide map of the area of the viaduct is another feature of this colour and monochrome illustrated 32 page A5 volume. Both authors are members of the Association for Industrial Archaeology.
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