Trent Viaducts

Trent Viaducts are two adjacent parallel railway bridges which carry the Midland Main Line over the River Trent between Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.

Originally a single bridge, it was built by the engineer Charles Blacker Vignoles for the Midland Counties Railway in 1839.

[1] The Viaduct was rebuilt between 1891 and 1893[2] when a second crossing was added by the Midland Railway to carry the high-level goods line from Toton.

The rebuilding included the removal of the cast iron spans supplied by the Butterley Company.

[3] Just south of the viaducts are twin tunnels through Red Hill.

Trent Viaduct as shown in the Midland Counties' Railway Companion of 1840