Ribblehead Viaduct Panorama by ejn

Photography • Landscape • posted on Feb 03, 2009

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Built by the Victorians ( boy the were clever ) to carry the Settle - Carlisle railway across the Yorkshire Pennines. It has 24 arches stands 104 ft high and is 440 yards long. Hundreds of railway builders ("navvies") lost their lives building the line, from a combination of accidents, fights, and smallpox outbreaks. In particular, building the Ribblehead (then Batty Moss) viaduct above the moor, caused such loss of life that the railway paid for an expansion of the local graveyard To get an idea of perspective the little red bit under the fourth arch from the right is my wife in her red winter jacket.When we arrived the temperature was minus 2 with a freezing wind. Really needs to be seen in full view

Comments (28)

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MaraP

2:24AM | Tue, 03 February 2009

Stuning work!!

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bugatti

2:48AM | Tue, 03 February 2009

Nice and interesting ...

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durleybeachbum

2:52AM | Tue, 03 February 2009

A brilliant idea to have the figure in there! SUPERB!

ejn

2:55AM | Tue, 03 February 2009

Actually it wasnt my idea to have my wife stand there.If I had a pound for every shot she has got into I would be very rich..but this time it served a purpose. :-)

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ledwolorz

2:58AM | Tue, 03 February 2009

Wonderful work.

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ralph49

3:05AM | Tue, 03 February 2009

Brilliant pano

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karlabu

3:09AM | Tue, 03 February 2009

Very nice panorama!

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SGopi

3:17AM | Tue, 03 February 2009

Wonderful shot!!

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lyron

3:47AM | Tue, 03 February 2009

Excellent image!!

SecondChoice

3:51AM | Tue, 03 February 2009

excellent pano and composition!

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artaddict2

4:17AM | Tue, 03 February 2009

A masterpiece! both your shot and also the building of such a structure! I've only ever seen this from a distance!

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marybelgium

4:30AM | Tue, 03 February 2009

excellent !

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marcopolinski

4:43AM | Tue, 03 February 2009

lovely!

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prutzworks

7:03AM | Tue, 03 February 2009

great pano-work, sublime!

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DAVER2112

7:06AM | Tue, 03 February 2009

Awesome shot! :)

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RobyHermida

7:36AM | Tue, 03 February 2009

Wonderful image!! :o)

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CavalierLady

8:15AM | Tue, 03 February 2009

A most impressive panorama with fascinating history. Beautifully done!

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MrsRatbag

8:31AM | Tue, 03 February 2009

Fantastic pano shot, the composition is perfect!

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glix70

8:54AM | Tue, 03 February 2009

Beautiful capture and postwork too!!! Excellent work!!! :)

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subcultura

10:16AM | Tue, 03 February 2009

wonderful picutre

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amanda_a42

4:36PM | Tue, 03 February 2009

Beautiful scene! looks almost like a painting

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babuci

4:46PM | Tue, 03 February 2009

Amazing capture and work.

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amota99517

8:53PM | Tue, 03 February 2009

Wow! That's some amazing architecture. Awesome shot!

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dbrv6

9:21PM | Tue, 03 February 2009

Great capture and amazing amount of effort and life that went into it. Sobering counterpoint for what is acceptable risk for a job.

Enlightened

3:00PM | Wed, 04 February 2009

Superb panoramic shot! It is a spectacular sight and to believe that it was man made lol.. Excellent photo and thank you for sharing :)

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kobaltkween

5:19PM | Wed, 04 February 2009

i love the sort of fish-eye distortion. it gives me a sense of immense scale in the middle, and immense distance at the ends. your wife does help make it an even grander photo by providing us scale in relation to ourselves.

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