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Meldon Viaduct
The Meldon Viaduct is a railway bridge built in 1871 to carry the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) across the West Okement River at Meldon (near Okehampton) on Dartmoor in Devon, South West England, under the direction of the LSWR's chief engineer, WR Galbraith. It was constructed of wrought iron and cast iron and is one of many truss bridges remaining. It is unusual in the trusses also being supported on wrought iron lattice piers and is one of only two such railway bridges remaining in the United Kingdom, the other being Bennerley Viaduct between Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.
The viaduct had an axle load limit, which limited the class of locomotive permitted to operate over it.
The bridge survives on a cycle track known as The Granite Way.
==Background==
In the nineteenth century, the LSWR were in competition with the Great Western Railway (GWR) to provide passenger trains from London to Devon and Cornwall. The South Devon Railway, an associate of the GWR, had already built a line from to along the south coast under the direction of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, leaving the LSWR, and its engineer, William Galbraith to build a line across Dartmoor.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Meldon Case Study )〕
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