Lovatts were contracted to the Great Central to execute contract number 2 on their extension line to London, East Leake to Aylestone, but the Corporation of Leicester insisted that those portions of the work that could delay or hinder the completion of their new water works at Swithland were to be executed by the main contractors for that job.

[1] The south viaduct has a skew girder section approximately halfway along its length, this having been provided to bridge the weir which separates the reservoir into two unequal portions.

As part of the same scheme a pair of mechanical signals (Swithland Sidings' Up Inner Distant and Up Outer Home) was installed on Brazil Island, between the two viaducts.

Photography may be undertaken from the south from Main Street, or at very long range from the dam which carries Kinchley Lane.

The best location is probably from the east at Kinchley Hill but there is no public access there (the land is owned by Severn Trent) Media related to Swithland Viaduct at Wikimedia Commons