The Ouse Valley Viaduct is a brick arch railway viaduct located in Mid-Sussex, West Sussex, England. Located between the city of Haywards Heath in the south and the village of Balcombe in the north.
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Built in 1841. The length of the Ouse Viaduct is 450 meters, the height is 29.5 meters, the width is 8.7 meters, it consists of 37 arched spans, each 10.7 meters long, at the ends of the bridge there are four decorative gazebos in the Italian style. The architects of "perhaps the most elegant viaduct in Britain" were John Arpet Rastrick, one of the first designers of steam locomotives in England, and the architect David Mokatta.
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Construction of the Ouse Valley Viaduct began by the London & Brighton Railway company in 1839. It was designed by the line's chief engineer, John Urpeth Rastrick, in association with London to Brighton railway architect David Mocatta. The viaduct is 96 feet (29 m) high and is supported on 37 semicircular arches, each 30 feet (9.1 m), topped by balustrades, spanning a total length of 1,480 feet (450 m).
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Each pier contains a cat arch with a soffitsemicircular, which had the advantage of reducing the number of bricks required. The estimated 11 million bricks required for its construction were shipped primarily down the River Ouse (via Newhaven and Lewes ) from the Netherlands. On July 12, 1841, the viaduct was officially opened to rail services, although the structure was not fully completed until the following year.