Heritage Plaques
- Structures
Quaker’s Yard
(Goitre Coed) Viaduct
CF46 5NS
Railway bridge over
the Afon Taf of 1840-1 by I K Brunel built for the Taff Vale Railway, opened
April 1841, doubled in width before 1861. A remarkable early railway bridge of
massive construction with octagonal piers necessitating deep chamfers to the
arches. The viaduct crosses the line of the Penydarren tramroad on the N side
of the river.
Grade II* Listed
History
Railway bridge over the Afon Taf of 1840-1 by I K Brunel built for the Taff Vale Railway, opened April 1841, doubled in width before 1861. A remarkable early railway bridge of massive construction with octagonal piers necessitating deep chamfers to the arches. The viaduct crosses the line of the Penydarren tramroad on the N side of the river.
Description
Railway viaduct over the Afon Taf. Very tall slightly curving viaduct of 6 arches, the original viaduct upstream and only visible from N. Massive rock-faced squared masonry and highly modelled octagonal piers, the rockfacing tooled at edges, banded 3 times with broad 3-course bands of tooled masonry, and the capitals of 6 stepped courses of rock-faced stone. Remarkable arches deeply splayed at edges, the splays in tooled stone as also the arch soffits. Rockfaced stone in spandrels, big coved string course in tooled stone and rock-faced stone parapets with ashlar copings. Splayed out ends to abutments.
Addition of matching scale is simpler, having regular piers, caps in 2 courses, arches with rock-faced stone voussoirs and vermiculated keystones. Coved string course breaks forward over keystones.
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