Stockport Viaduct, completed in North West England…

December 1840 CE

Stockport Viaduct, completed in North West England on December 21, 1840, is one of the largest brick structures in Europe.

Carrying the West Coast Main Line across the valley of the River Mersey in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, Stockport Viaduct was designed by the civil engineer George Watson Buck on behalf of the recently formed Manchester and Birmingham Railway company.

In 1839, work had commenced on the structure’s construction, which has consumed around eleven million bricks.

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