place

Parkhead Viaduct

Bridges completed in 1880Commons category link is locally definedEngland rail transport stubsHistory of the West Midlands (county)Rail transport in Dudley
Railway bridges in the West Midlands (county)United Kingdom bridge (structure) stubsUse British English from March 2017West Midlands (county) building and structure stubs
Parkhead Viaduct
Parkhead Viaduct

Parkhead Viaduct is a railway viaduct in Dudley, West Midlands, England. The original viaduct was a wooden structure erected in 1850 to carry the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway over Parkhead Locks on the Dudley Canal, near to the southern mouth of the Dudley Tunnel. The current brick viaduct was built in 1880 and it is believed that the original wooden structure is still encased within its successor.Use of the viaduct had fallen by the late 1960s due to the closure of passenger stations on the route, but the line remained open until 19 March 1993, when the section of the railway between Walsall and Brierley Hill was closed. The most recent train believed to have crossed the viaduct was a cable laying train on 1 July 1993, nearly four months after the line's closure. The section of track over Parkhead Viaduct was removed in about 1995, with most of the track between Highgate Road and Blowers Green Road following in 1998 due to the construction of a new road bridge over the line nearby. The structure of the viaduct is still intact, but has fallen into disrepair and will undergo extensive refurbishment in order to be reutilised, with 2023 being the likely completion date to the Wednesbury to Brierley Hill extension of the West Midlands Metro tram network, which will make use of the viaduct.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Parkhead Viaduct (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors, Images).

Parkhead Viaduct
Parkhead Lock 1 Bridge,

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address External links Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Parkhead ViaductContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 52.498711 ° E -2.099508 °
placeShow on map

Address

Parkhead Viaduct

Parkhead Lock 1 Bridge
DY2 0UP
England, United Kingdom
mapOpen on Google Maps

linkWikiData (Q7138488)
linkOpenStreetMap (1236452471)

Parkhead Viaduct
Parkhead Viaduct
Share experience

Nearby Places

Pegasus Academy

Pegasus Academy (formerly known as Holly Hall School and Holly Hall Maths and Computing College) is a mixed secondary school located in the Holly Hall area of Dudley, West Midlands, England. Situated by the Scotts Green roundabout near the Russells Hall Estate, it was originally opened in 1968 to replace an earlier, smaller building several hundred yards further along the road towards Brierley Hill. It was originally a secondary modern school until adopting comprehensive status in September 1975, three years after the entry age was increased from 11 to 12. The school reverted to being an 11-16 comprehensive in September 1990. The school had grant-maintained status in the 1990s, before receiving Mathematics and Computing College specialist status in September 2002. In December 2007, plans were unveiled by Dudley council for the school to be rebuilt and change to academy status, which would have made it the first school of its kind in the borough. The plan also included taking in some pupils from Pensnett High School, which was earmarked for closure with other pupils also transferring to The Crestwood School at Kingswinford. However, these plans were scrapped by the local council in March 2008 as the school was deemed "too successful" for academy status. However the school was converted to academy status in 2011. In September 2017 the academy joined The Dudley Academies Trust, under the sponsorship of Dudley College. It was renamed the Pegasus Academy the following September.