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Cadishead Viaduct is a disused railway viaduct of multi-lattice girder construction. It was built in 1892 by the

Cheshire Lines Committee The Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC) was formed in the 1860s and became the second-largest joint railway in Great Britain. The committee, which was often styled the Cheshire Lines Railway, operated of track in the then counties of Lancashire an ...

to clear the newly built

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to carry the new deviation of the

Glazebrook Rixton-with-Glazebrook is a civil parish in the Borough of Warrington, Cheshire, England. Historically part of Lancashire, it lies to the east of Warrington and borders Cadishead, and is largely farmland. It has a railway station at Glazebrook ...

to Woodley Main Line. The central span is long, and the clearance is . The route opened to goods on 27 February 1893 and to passenger traffic on 29 May 1893. Following the withdrawal of passenger services in 1964, the line became goods only, and when expensive repairs to the viaduct were needed in the early 1980s,

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closed the viaduct and the preceding line towards Glazebrook. The viaduct is now blocked with containers on each end owing to

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and to stop people walking across it, as the deck of the viaduct is in a very bad state with major corrosion setting in on the

soffit A soffit is an exterior or interior architectural feature, generally the horizontal, aloft underside of any construction element. Its archetypal form, sometimes incorporating or implying the projection of beams, is the underside of eaves (to ...

s and trough decking of the major steel span of the viaduct. The Hamilton Davies Trust proposes to restore the viaduct to operation as a multi-modal route, with the potential to operate a heritage railway across it.

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* {{Salford B&S , state=collapsed Bridges completed in 1893 Railway bridges in Greater Manchester Former railway bridges in the United Kingdom

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