Winter at Ribblehead

Winter at Ribblehead

A winters day at Ribblehead in The Yorkshire Dales. 

With 24 huge stone arches the viaduct is 400m long and 32m High (104ft in real money). Building started in 1870 and took 4 years to complete. It sits below Yorkshire's highest peak, Whernside.

Ribblehead viaduct is just over the border from Cumbria into North Yorkshire and is undoubtedly the most impressive structure on the Settle-Carlisle Railway.

Hundreds of railway builders lost their lives building the line, from a combination of accidents, fights, and smallpox outbreaks. In particular, building the Ribblehead (then Batty Moss) viaduct, caused such loss of life that the railway paid for an expansion of the local graveyard.