Wicker Arches

Wicker Arches form a 660-yard (600 m) long railway viaduct across the Don Valley in the City of Sheffield, England.

[1] The viaduct was built in 1848 to extend the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway from its previous terminus at Bridgehouses.

[4] Later a part of the Great Central Railway, the viaduct supported Sheffield Victoria Station.

The Victoria station buildings and platforms were demolished in 1989; however, freight services continue to use the, now single, line across the viaduct to reach the Stocksbridge Steel works.

The central arch was hit by an unexploded bomb during the Second World War but did not collapse and was repaired.

Patchwork on the arches from the Sheffield Blitz bombing raid during the Second World War