
Remnant of the Crumlin Viaduct - San Diego, CA
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Metro2
N 32° 52.878 W 117° 14.102
11S E 478014 N 3638152
Not much left to see.... the remnant is displayed as if it is a strange sculpture.
Waymark Code: WMJH4X
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 11/18/2013
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This remnant of the viaduct is displayed outside the entrance to the Charles Lee Powell Structural Systems Laboratory building on the campus of the University of California San Diego (UCSD).
The plaque reads:
"FRAGMENT OF A COLUMN FROM THE
CRUMLIN VIADUCT
1853-1966
GIFT OF ALBERT J. BLAYLOCK, STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
MORE INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE
IN THE LOBBY OF THE ENGINEERING BUILDING"
Wikipedia (
visit link) informs us:
"The Crumlin Viaduct was a railway viaduct located above the village of Crumlin in South Wales, originally built to carry the Taff Vale Extension of the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway (NA&HR) across the Ebbw River.
Hailed as "one of the most significant examples of technological achievement during the Industrial Revolution", in its 109 years of service until being dismantled in 1967, it remained: the least expensive bridge for its size ever constructed; the highest railway viaduct in the United Kingdom; the third highest railway viaduct in the world, after the railway viaduct at Spoleto, Italy, and the Portage Timber Viaduct in Portage, New York state in the United States."