Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
24849
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/02/2001
Date of Amendment
26/02/2001
Name of Property
Taff Vale Railway Viaduct over River Taff
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taff
Community
Pontypridd
Town
Pontypridd
Locality
Coed-pen-maen
Easting
307805
Northing
191072
Street Side
Location
Spanning the River Taff approximately 0.75km NNE of Pontypridd Bridge and immediately N of the White Bridge.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Dated 1885 and part of an extension of the Taff Vale Railway to serve Albion Colliery at Cilfynydd.
Exterior
A 3-bay girder viaduct on tapering rock-faced sandstone piers. The piers have rounded cutwaters at the base and projecting bands below the top. On top of the piers are cast iron parapet piers with saddleback copings. These piers bear in relief the date and the legend 'TVR' on alternate faces. The steel girder deck has a latticework steel parapet. These parapets terminate in rectangular stone piers with conglomerate coping stones. The abutments are of rock-faced stone with a band of red conglomerate below the top. They comprise splayed walls retaining the embankment on both sides, of which the W abutment is more substantial as the ground is steeper.
The deck carries an iron pipe but the rails have been taken up.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved steel girder viaduct, a type characteristic of the late C19 but now extremely rare in S Wales.
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