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A MAJOR step forward has been taken this week to support freight and passenger services on the Cumbrian Coastal Railway Line.

A MAJOR step forward has been taken this week to support freight and passenger services on the Cumbrian Coastal Railway Line.

Since November 2020, scaffolding towers have moved across seven of the viaduct’s 24 arches to carry out masonry, drainage and repainting work.  The £2.1M

Ribblehead Viaduct, repaired in time for a ‘staycation summer’ with a Network Rail worker in the foreground. Picture Network Rail WORK to restore Ribblehead viaduct in the Yorkshire Dales for rail passengers and tourists is now complete. From last Friday, visitors to the Ribble Valley and to Whernside were able to see the iconic piece of Victorian railway architecture on the Settle to Carlisle line in all its glory after months of specialist repairs by Network Rail. Since November 2020, 100ft high scaffolding towers have moved across seven of the viaduct’s 24 arches to carry out ...

Don't show me this message again✕ Ribblehead Viaduct (Getty Images) When Yorkshire’s stunning Ribblehead Viaduct was built in the 1870s so many workers lost their lives through accidents, fighting and a smallpox outbreak that the Midland Railway company famously paid to extend the local graveyard. A restoration of the sweeping Grade II* listed bridge completed this week has, thankfully, not come at quite the same price. Scaffolding has now come down following the major £2.1 million, six-month upgrade to the 24-arch, 104 ft tall structure. And railways bosses say the work – the first i...