GWR Routes: Banbury to Wolverhampton

GWR Routes: North Warwickshire Line

Bordesley Viaduct: gwrbg1716

A view along the top of the new viaduct extension looking from the future Moor Street station throat towards Bordesley in September 1912. Two new relief lines and a goods line were built parallel to the existing Oxford to Birmingham Railway main double line with the height of the viaduct extension maintained at that of the existing main line height. The viaduct had sixty arches each with an average span of thirty seven feet. To reduce the structure’s weight, instead of filling the voids between the main arches with rubble, five subsidiary arches were constructed on piers in these voids. These subsidiary arches would later give trouble and had to be reconstructed in 1939 (see gwrb1655).

Robert Ferris

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