SCRCA Location Introduction
Dry Beck viaduct (Bridge SAC/326) is 139 yards long, a maximum of 80 feet high, has seven arches (each with a 44 feet 4 inch span) and is constructed from red sandstone with blue brick vaulting for the arches.
It carries the Settle & Carlisle Railway across a small ephemeral stream known as 'Dry Beck', which lies in a shallow valley to the west of the River Eden. As the name suggests, the beck (stream) is dry for most of the year, but it does carry running water during periods of heavy rain and substantial snow melt.
As trains cross the viaduct, they pass between the new non-metropolitan districts of "Cumberland" (to the north) and "Westmorland and Furness" (to the south).
