page_title: Chester Burn viaduct
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Chester Burn viaduct / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: English: Chester Burn viaduct in Chester-le-Street, County Durham
context_page_description: Chester Burn viaduct is a railway viaduct in Chester-le-Street, County Durham, England. It is an imposing structure, dominating the marketplace and north end of the town. It carries the East Coast Main Line, the main railway from Newcastle to London. Chester-le-Street station on that line is just south of the viaduct. It is a Grade II listed building.
context_section_description: The viaduct consists of 11 semi-elliptical arches, each 60 feet (18 m) wide and is 90 feet (27 m) high, for a total length of 230 metres (750 ft). It is mostly red engineering brick in English bond, with seven rows of header bond around the arches and with stone for the plinths and parapet edge. The stone and bricks are all original, though there has been some resurfacing on the west. Railings and refuges added later are not part of the listed structure. It lies on a north-south axis with a slight curve, passing over Chester Burn.
  The viaduct was built to cross Chester Burn (also known as Cong Burn), then a centre of activity with both industrial and residential properties around its banks. In 1955 to establish a new market the area east of the viaduct was cleared and the burn concreted over below the viaduct. More recently a Tesco superstore was built, and its carpark occupies the space beneath the arches today.
caption: One of the arches
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