5616 x 3744 px | 47,5 x 31,7 cm | 18,7 x 12,5 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
15 août 2014
Lieu:
Monsal Dale, Derbyshire, England, UK
Informations supplémentaires:
This image is exclusive to Alamy. Headstone Viaduct was built by the Midland Railway, over the River Wye, immediately after the 533-yard (487 m) Headstone Tunnel, travelling north from Great Longstone. The viaduct, often incorrectly called Monsal Dale Viaduct or Monsal Head Viaduct, is 300 feet (91 m) long, with five 50-foot (15 m) span arches, 40 feet high at the centre. In 1970 a grade 2 listing was placed on the viaduct, but when it was built in 1863 it was seen as destroying the beauty of the dale. John Ruskin, considered to be Britain's leading writer on culture at the time, criticised the building of the railway: 'There was a rocky valley between Buxton and Bakewell, once upon a time, divine as the Vale of Tempe... You Enterprised a Railroad through the valley - you blasted its rocks away, heaped thousands of tons of shale into its lovely stream. The valley is gone, and the Gods with it; and now, every fool in Buxton can be in Bakewell in half an hour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton; which you think a lucrative process of exchange – you Fools everywhere.’
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