Latitude: 51.6621 / 51°39'43"N
Longitude: -3.8363 / 3°50'10"W
OS Eastings: 273087
OS Northings: 197518
OS Grid: SS730975
Mapcode National: GBR H1.6HRN
Mapcode Global: VH4K5.GH86
Plus Code: 9C3RM567+RF
Entry Name: Quaker's Viaduct (partly in Coedffranc community)
Listing Date: 29 March 2000
Last Amended: 22 December 2003
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 82345
Building Class: Transport
ID on this website: 300082345
Location: Spanning Drymau Road on the E side of Skewen and some 125m N of the main A4230.
County: Neath Port Talbot
Town: Neath
Community: Dyffryn Clydach
Community: Dyffryn Clydach
Locality: Skewen
Built-Up Area: Neath
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Viaduct
Railway viaduct built for the South Wales Railway which was completed in 1850 between Chepstow and Swansea. The supervising engineer was I.K. Brunel, and the railway was built to a broad gauge. The bridge was built over a road and a tramroad taking coal to the Mines Royal Copper Works.
Railway viaduct, 3 deep bays of snecked stone with tooled dressings to the elliptical arches. The central piers are pierced with round-headed openings. Projecting stone bands in each face define the base of the coped parapets that terminate in square piers above the abutments. The abutments are battered and retain an embankment on each side.
Listed for its industrial archaeological interest as a Brunel-period railway bridge and one of the original structures on the South Wales Railway.
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