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Wharncliffe Viaduct, the Glossary

The Wharncliffe Viaduct is a brick-built viaduct that carries the Great Western Main Line railway across the Brent Valley, between Hanwell and Southall, Ealing, UK, at an elevation of.^[1]

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Bridges by Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Grade I listed buildings in the London Borough of Ealing
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Railway viaducts in London

Arch bridge

An arch bridge is a bridge with abutments at each end shaped as a curved arch.

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Bat

Bats are flying mammals of the order Chiroptera.

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Bristol

Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, the most populous city in the region.

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Broad-gauge railway

A broad-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge (the distance between the rails) broader than the used by standard-gauge railways.

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Centring

Centring, centre, centering"Centering 2, Centring 2" def.

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Charles Richardson (civil engineer)

Sir Charles Richardson (1814–1896) was the resident engineer of the Bristol and South Wales Union Railway.

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Sir Charles Wheatstone (6 February 1802 – 19 October 1875), was an English scientist and inventor of the Victorian era, his contributions including to the English concertina, the stereoscope (a device for displaying three-dimensional images), and the Playfair cipher (an encryption technique).

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David & Charles

David & Charles Ltd is an English publishing company.

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Domesday Book

Domesday Book (the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of King William the Conqueror.

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Ealing

Ealing is a district in West London, England, west of Charing Cross in the London Borough of Ealing.

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Ealing Hospital

Ealing Hospital is a district general NHS hospital, part of London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust, located in the Southall district of the London Borough of Ealing, West London, England.

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Electrical telegraph

Electrical telegraphy is a point-to-point text messaging system, primarily used from the 1840s until the late 20th century.

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Engineering brick

Engineering bricks are a type of brick used where strength, low water porosity or acid (flue gas) resistance are needed.

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George Stephenson

George Stephenson (9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848) was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer during the Industrial Revolution.

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Great Western Main Line

The Great Western Main Line (GWML) is a main line railway in England that runs westwards from London Paddington to.

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Great Western Railway

The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales.

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Hanwell

Hanwell is a town in the London Borough of Ealing. It is about west of Ealing Broadway and had a population of 28,768 as of 2011. It is the westernmost location of the London post town. Hanwell is mentioned in the Domesday Book. St Mary's Church was established in the tenth century and has been rebuilt three times since, the present church dating to 1842.

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Hanwell railway station

Hanwell railway station serves the town of Hanwell in the London Borough of Ealing.

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Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Isambard Kingdom Brunel (9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859) was a British civil engineer and mechanical engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history", "one of the 19th-century engineering giants", and "one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, changed the face of the English landscape with his groundbreaking designs and ingenious constructions".

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James Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Wharncliffe

Colonel James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 1st Baron Wharncliffe, PC (6 October 1776 – 19 December 1845) was a British soldier and politician.

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John Tawell

John Tawell (c. 1784–1845) was a British murderer and the first person to be arrested as the result of telecommunications technology.

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List of bridges in London

List of bridges in London lists the major bridges within Greater London or within the influence of London.

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List of railway bridges and viaducts in the United Kingdom

This is a list of viaducts and significant bridges of the United Kingdom's railways, past and present.

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Listed building

In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection.

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London Paddington station

Paddington, also known as London Paddington, is a London railway station and London Underground station complex, located on Praed Street in the Paddington area. Wharncliffe Viaduct and London Paddington station are great Western Main Line.

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Meadow

A meadow is an open habitat or field, vegetated by grasses, herbs, and other non-woody plants.

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Morton Peto

Sir Samuel Morton Peto, 1st Baronet (4 August 1809 – 13 November 1889) was an English entrepreneur, civil engineer and railway developer, and, for more than 20 years, a Member of Parliament (MP).

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Network Rail

Network Rail Limited is the owner (via its subsidiary Network Rail Infrastructure Limited, which was known as Railtrack plc before 2002) and infrastructure manager of most of the railway network in Great Britain.

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Nikolaus Pevsner

Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, The Buildings of England (1951–74).

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organizations, and public service outside the civil service.

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Overhead line

An overhead line or overhead wire is an electrical cable that is used to transmit electrical energy to electric locomotives, electric multiple units, trolleybuses or trams.

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Paddington

Paddington is an area in the City of Westminster, in central London, England.

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Pub

A pub (short for public house) is in several countries a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises.

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Public bill committee

In the British House of Commons, public bill committees (known as standing committees before 2006) consider Bills – proposed Acts of Parliament.

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River Brent

The River Brent is a river in west and northwest London, England, and a tributary of the River Thames.

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Rowland Brotherhood

Rowland Brotherhood (or sometimes Roland Brotherhood) was a British engineer.

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Slough

Slough is a town in Berkshire, England, in the Thames Valley west of central London and north-east of Reading, at the intersection of the M4, M40 and M25 motorways.

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Slough railway station

Slough railway station, in Slough, Berkshire, England, is on the Great Western Main Line, halfway between London Paddington and Reading. Wharncliffe Viaduct and Slough railway station are great Western Main Line.

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Southall

Southall is a large suburban town in West London, England, part of the London Borough of Ealing and is one of its seven major towns. It is situated west of Charing Cross and had a population of 69,857 as of 2011. It is generally divided in three parts: the mostly residential area around Lady Margaret Road (Dormers Wells); the main commercial centre at High Street and Southall Broadway (part of the greater Uxbridge Road); and Old Southall/Southall Green to the south consisting of Southall railway station, industries and Norwood Green bounded by the M4.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wharncliffe_Viaduct

Wharncliffe Viaduct, the Glossary

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See also

Bridges by Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Grade I listed buildings in the London Borough of Ealing

Great Western Railway

Railway viaducts in London

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