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Latitude: 51.6949 / 51°41'41"N
Longitude: -3.2314 / 3°13'52"W
OS Eastings: 314986
OS Northings: 200291
OS Grid: SO149002
Mapcode National: GBR HV.4KWM
Mapcode Global: VH6D6.YN1K
Plus Code: 9C3RMQV9+XC
Entry Name: Railway viaduct over Factory Road
Listing Date: 29 April 2002
Last Amended: 29 April 2002
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 26492
Building Class: Transport
Also known as: Railway viaduct over Factory Road
ID on this website: 300026492
Location: Spanning the valley of Nant Bargoed approximately 300m N of Bargoed station.
County: Caerphilly
Town: Bargoed
Community: Bargoed (Bargod)
Community: Bargoed
Built-Up Area: Bargod
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Bridge over valley Railway viaduct
An integral component of the original Rhymney Railway which was begun in 1854 and opened in 1858 from Rhymney, via Walnut Tree Junction, to Cardiff.
A curved 7-bay viaduct of snecked rock-faced stone. Piers have wide splays to round arches with impost bands. The 3 piers to the N end, and the N abutment, have tie rods to the spandrels, with square plates. The abutments have shallow buttresses. A projecting band is below the parapet, which has rock-faced copings and terminates with simple rectangular piers slightly splayed out. The deck is laid with a double track.
Listed as a visually imposing and fine work of C19 civil engineering.
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