page_title: Ingleton branch line
section_title: Construction
hierarchical_section_title: Ingleton branch line / Construction
caption_attribution_description: English: Lowgill Viaduct Wikidata has entry Q26379193 with data related to this item.This is a photo of listed building number 1086909.
context_page_description: The Ingleton branch line was a rural railway line in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Lancashire and Westmorland in England. It was originally planned in 1846 to form part of a main line route from London to Scotland, but fell victim to rivalry between railway companies. Completion was delayed until 1861, and it was only ever a rural branch line, serving the towns of Ingleton, Kirkby Lonsdale and Sedbergh. It closed to passengers in 1954 and was dismantled in 1967.
context_section_description: The line was built by the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway between 1858 and 1861, and the work was split into four contracts.
  Contract 1A covered 1 mile 6 chains (1.7 km) from Lowgill, and included the Lowgill Viaduct of 11 arches each 45 feet (14 m) wide, with a maximum height of 90 feet (27 m). It was awarded to Samuel Buxton of Leeds.
  Contract 1 covered 4 miles 38 chains (7.2 km) and included two major bridges, one over the River Rawthey near Sedbergh, 120 feet (37 m) long and 53 feet (16 m) high, the other over the River Lune, known as Waterside Viaduct, 530 feet (162 m) long and 100 feet (30 m) high, both with a cast metal central arch of similar style to each other. It was awarded to Coulthard and Allen, who had built the Clapham to Ingleton NWR line some 10 years earlier.
  Contract 2 covered 7 miles 27 chains (11.8 km) over flatter ground with no major works, and was awarded to James Taylor.
  Contract 3 covered the final 5 miles 78 chains (9.6 km) ending at the Ingleton Viaduct of 11 arches each 57 feet (17 m) wide, 800 feet (240 m) long with a maximum height of 80 feet (24 m) (the foundations of which had been laid ten years earlier by the NWR). It was also awarded to James Taylor.
  Some 1,600 navvies and 70 horses were used to build the 18-mile (29 km) line.
  Before construction, the line had been referred to as the "Orton branch" or the "Lune Valley line", but, once built, it was officially known as the "Ingleton branch".
caption: Lowgill Viaduct
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