Do you know the answer then ? Or I’d better try doing some research to find out !
Incidentally the bridge at North Grimston is in a lot better condition than the one near Wharram Percy medieval site!
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Yes. The one at Wharram Percy was in a dangerous state of repair when my uncle and I were working there back in the early eighties fencing and tree planting.
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OK it defeats the point if I give the answer but the NER owned NO viaducts because they only called them "bridges". For example the Royal Border Bridge at Berwick and the Queen Alexandra Bridge in Sunderland, though anyone would call them a viaduct, were only bridges.
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Thats interesting Alan - why was that then?
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It is similar to the question how do you know which is a bridge and which is a tunnel?
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Well of course Settrington road bridge was a tunnel in all but name so yes. There are a series of closely spaced bridges on the east side of North Shields station and IIRC they didn't have numbers in pre Metro days, only letters.
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Is that the bridge between Fimber and Burdale ? Its number escapes me at the moment. I remember walking underneath it in the hot summer of 1978 and the cutting ahead (heading south) was infested with rabbits, you could see their heads popping out of the burrows as they scattered everywhere,