[3] The resident engineer was Charles Arthur Rowlandson, the contractors were John Waddell and Sons.

[4] The viaduct is a 13-arch structure, 305 yd (279 m) long, with the rail level reaching 120 ft (37 m) high.

The foundations on land were excavated to the level of rock, and formed from slag based cement.

[5] Piers 5,7,8 and 9 had triple foundations, connected above the water level by two semicircular arches.

[12] The viaduct is mentioned in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula: The little river, the Esk, runs through a deep valley, which broadens out as it comes near the harbour.