Everything about The Stockport Viaduct totally explained
The
Stockport Viaduct is a Grade II*
listed structure designed by
George Watson Buck in
Stockport,
Greater Manchester . At high,. In common with
Stockport railway station, the viaduct was also historically referred to as
Edgley Viaduct
Before the second world war this viaduct wasn't the largest brick construction, The Krupps Armanents works, in Germany, enjoyed this title but that didn't survive Allied bombing. Many lives were lost during it's construction.
It has made a brief contribution to literature, being mentioned in the introduction to the Northern Mill Towns in
Elizabeth Gaskell's
North and South.
The first section of the Manchester & Birmingham to be completed ran from a temporary station in Manchester, at Travis Street, to a temporary station at Heaton Norris, on the Lancashire side of the Stockport viaduct. Opened for traffic on 4 June 1840, this short line was an immediate success, carrying nearly 2,000 passengers a day during the second half of 1840. Two years later, on 10 May 1842, train services were extended from Heaton Norris to Sandbach and the permanent Manchester station in Store Street was opened.
The overhead power cables were added during the 1960s when this part of the
West Coast Main Line was electrified.
1890 Expansion
In around 1890 it was decided the viaduct should be expanded. This was because
London and North Western Railway, formed in 1846, wanted to have several tracks on one route so that slower trains could be overtaken. To add more tracks to the viaduct would mean the need for expansion. So it was decided and the viaduct was expanded allowing 2 more tracks to be built.
Controversy
In 2007 Stockport council complained about plans by the train operator
Arriva Cross Country to reduce by 50% the number of Manchester to Birmingham trains stopping at Stockport. Councillor David White claimed that a 1840
Act of Parliament guaranteed that all trains passing over the viaduct had to stop at Stockport station.. An online petition to the government has been opened to oppose this change . No reference to the specific act has yet been quoted, however as the viaduct was started in 1839 the act of parliament authorising its construction must have predated that.
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