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Arnos Park Viaduct

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and Cockfosters. The combination of a viaduct followed fairly soon after by a long tunnel was made necessary by the need to keep the line as level as possible as it crossed the Pymmes Brook valley, then went under high ground at Southgate before continuing above ground to Oakwood and Cockfosters. The
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runs parallel to the viaduct in the north and then under it before continuing eastward. The viaduct is made of brick and consists of 34 numbered arches, broken only by two bridges where it passes over Waterfall Road and Hampden Way. The railway line then enters a tunnel half a mile long in which
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The viaduct was built as part of London Underground's project to extend the Piccadilly line from Finsbury Park in the south to Cockfosters in the north which started in 1930. The extension was built in stages, first to Arnos Grove station (opened 1932), then to
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The viaduct starts at the southern edge of Arnos Park and ends on the northern side of Hampden Way, opposite Morton Way. The
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and ends on the northern side of the park, where the line enters a tunnel that continues to Southgate.
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in the north. It was built in 1932 and opened in 1933. It starts on the southern edge of
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of 34 brick arches that was built as part of the extension of
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The viaduct from the east, with Waterfall Road on the right
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railway viaduct
London Underground
Piccadilly line
Finsbury Park
Cockfosters
Arnos Park
Arnos Grove station
Oakwood
Pymmes Brook
Southgate
Oakwood
The bridge over Waterfall Road from the west
The viaduct viewed from Waterfall Road, with the Pymmes Brook in the foreground
Pymmes Brook
Blind arches near Waterfall Road
Blind arches


"Underground Railways: Big Extension Scheme in London"


Railways, urban development and town planning in Britain: 1948–2008
ISBN
978-1-4094-8825-5


The Tramway and Railway World.

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