The viaduct was … The Wharncliffe Viaduct from Southall to Hanwell in the London Borough of Ealing, for the Great Western Railway, built 1836-37 ‐ the first of their viaducts to be completed. Wharncliffe Viaduct was the first major structural design by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and the first major engineering work to be completed on the GWR. Hanwell: Pevsner N B L (1991). Sekon continues by describing the viaduct as "a remarkable instance of successful architectural invention, and, as a piece of masonry,perfect ... everywhere The Wharncliffe Viaduct is a brick-built viaduct that carries the Great Western Main Line railway across the Brent Valley, between Hanwell and Southall, Ealing, UK, at an elevation of 20 metres.

Cooke had renegotiated the contract with the GWR and extended the telegraph to On 16 May 1843 the Paddington-to-Slough telegraph went public, becoming Britain's first public telegraph service.
Locally, it is often repeated to this day, that Queen Victoria so much enjoyed the view that she would have her train halt for a while on Brunel's spectacular viaduct over the river Brent. sentence: "I am engineer to the finest work in It is 17 metres (56 ft) wide. Like the Roman aqueducts, many early viaducts comprised a series of arches of roughly equal length. The viaduct was the first major structural design by Constructed of engineering brick, the 270-metre-long (890 ft) viaduct has eight semi-elliptical arches, each spanning 70 feet (21 m) and rising 5.3 metres (17 ft). The "cyclopean colonnade" can be seen on the right here. (c) The viaduct in use now, with a train crossing it. The term is conventional for a rail flyover as opposed to a flying junction or a rail bridge which crosses one feature. see a cyclopean colonnade stretching far away in distant perspective, and carry away with him a memorable and not unpleasing impression. The Wharncliffe Viaduct is a brick-built viaduct that carries the railway across the Brent Valley, between Hanwell and Southall, Ealing, at an elevation of 65 feet. very many stupendous engineering triumphs that have However, the most likely candidate is It is quite likely that this viaduct is the largest bat cave complex in the whole of London, and possibly the south of England, as no other roost approaching this size has so far been reported. work, not only in Great Britain, not only in Europe, Lord Wharncliffe's coat of arms can been seen on the central pier on the south side. Local people still remember the many attempts made by the A First Great Western train from Swansea to Paddington, travelling at approximately 120 mph (190 km/h), derailed shortly after it passed through a set of points close to Southall station. [12] Contractors Messrs Grissell and Peto.

The Great Western Railway was at the time of its The Alaskan Way Viaduct has seen its fair share of critics. Brown brick viaduct of 8 semi-elliptical arches each of 70 ft span and rising 19 … The supporting piers are hollow and tapered, rising to projecting stone cornices that held up the arch As travel by rail became more popular and rail traffic grew, pressure mounted to have an additional local line. The train remained upright but travelled a further 2 miles (3.2 km), passing an oncoming High Speed Train, through Hanwell station, and over Wharncliffe Viaduct before coming to a halt. The first locomotives to cross were the Trains on the new railway left Hanwell for Paddington every morning at 8 and 11 am, and at 3 and 7 pm; also westwards for Slough and Maidenhead, at 9:30 am, and at 1:30, 4:30, and 8:30 pm.

Despite being something of a publicity stunt for Cooke, it became very popular, and HM Government were frequently using it for communication with the royal household at Windsor Castle nearby.As the telecommunication traffic grew, the viaduct came to carry one of the trunk routes for the transatlantic cables, and more recently fibre-optic cables.It is one of the key locations in the bid for historic parts of the original GWR main line from On the nearby Uxbridge Road, an eighteenth-century coaching inn was renamed The hollow cavities within the structure of the supporting piers provide convenient roosting places for It is not clear which species of bat is resident; indeed, there may be several.
It is situated between Southall and Hanwell stations, the latter station being only a very short distance away to the east.