Crimple Valley Viaduct, also known as Crimple Viaduct and Crimple Beck Viaduct is a

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which crosses the

Crimple Valley Crimple Valley is an area south of Harrogate (North Yorkshire) surrounding the River Crimple (also known as Crimple Beck). It gave its name to the synthetic yarn Crimplene Crimplene is a texturised continuous fibre launched in 1959, produced ...

between

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and

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. It is a Grade II* listed structure. It is long and has 31 arches, each of span, which reach a maximum height of above the Crimple Valley. The sharp bend in the track on the south side of the viaduct causes trains to reduce speed significantly, especially on the northbound journey. Older Pacer rolling stock units are locally known to loudly squeal whilst passing around the tight bend due to increased pressure on the

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and wheels. It was completed in 1848 to designs by

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for the

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company and built of rusticated grit stone ashlar. The contractor was James Bray.''Leeds Intelligencer'' – Saturday 16 September 1848

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