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Ribblehead Viaduct

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Photoblog: 07 Jul 2007

The Princess Elizabeth, presumably on some sort of test excercise, crossing the 402 m 24 arch Ribblehead viaduct (built 1870-74) in the Yorkshire Dales national park in northern England. The Settle-Carlisle railway was threatened with closure in the 1980s because British Rail did not want to spend the money required to keep the viaduct safe. Fortunately the plans were made long after the public backlash against railway closures had set in, and the closure was strongly opposed, forcing BR to refurbish the line.

I wasn't expecting this train to come along -- a fortutous accident of right place and time.

Keywords: 10+faves, ABigFave, England, Ribblehead Viaduct, Ribblehead, Ribblesdale, Settle-Carlisle Railway, UK, Yorkshire Dales, Yorkshire, bridges, bw, locomotives, monochrome, national parks, railways, steam locomotives, trains, viaducts

Taken by Joe D on 2007-06-17 11:57:03 with: NIKON D50 at 18 mm 6643856/1000000 0.001 sec (1/1000) ISO 200 |

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Sadferret

2007-07-02 10:39:06

Fantastic shot!

qwertyuiop

2007-07-02 12:26:35

Yeah, love this one. Would have been nice even without the steam train.

*Firefox

2007-07-02 13:46:15

Superb shot.... the steam engine seems to be about a dozen carriages short of a train! Oh, and looking at it in the large size, the engine is Princess Elizabeth!

netlancer2006

2007-07-02 20:45:50

simply superb ... A Big Fave You are invited to add this image to www.flickr.com/groups/bigfave Please tag this photo with ABigFave when you add it to the pool.