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Ribblehead Viaduct, Chapel-le-Dale, North Yorkshire

I thought I would have break from my Barcelona images today and to give me a bit more time to edit them and treat you all with this image.

Some of you may recognise this viaduct straight away, yes thats correct its the Ribblehead Viaduct on the Settle to Carlisle Railway. Over the weekend I met up with Mark Hepples and we decided to have a photo walk up here. I was quite surprised how long it took us to get here even from Leeds, about 2 hours but certainly worth it. I have never been here before but it has always been high on my list to photograph. When stood under one of the arches you feel so small, can you believe that this awesome viaduct took only 4 years to build, sadly though in days of where health and safety took a book seat and many lives were lost in the building of this bridge with many of the Navvies buried in the local cemetery in Chapel-le-Dale nearby.

In this image I have tried to capture the scale of the bridge compared to the moor its surrounded by although I am not sure if a tighter crop may have worked better, say 16:9? what do you think? Also going to try a B&W conversion to compare to this but I feel the colour version works best. This is another effort of my long exposure practice with my LEE Big Stopper, although I am very happy with this I still feel that it is no way as refined as some of the best Long Exposure photographers here on Flickr, I just can't put my finger on it what it is, maybe the wrong lens? I have tried to correct the barrel distortion but it still seems curved, maybe this is the land. Maybe I should use prime lenses instead of my Sigma 10-20.

Anyway enough of me going on. Hope you all have great day! :-)

Photo Details
Sony Alpha SLT-A77
Sigma 10-20mm 1:4-5.6 EX DC HSM
LEE Big Stopper
LEE 0.9 ND Hard Grad
RAW
f/16
10mm
ISO50
91s exposure

Software Used
Lightroom 4.4

Information
Ribblehead Viaduct is a railway viaduct across the valley of the River Ribble at Ribblehead, in North Yorkshire, England, 28 miles (45 km) north west of Skipton and 26 miles (42 km) south east of Kendal. The viaduct is a Grade II* listed building and a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

Ribblehead viaduct is 440 yards (400 m) long, and 104 feet (32 m) above the valley floor at its highest point. It is made up of twenty-four arches of 45 feet (14 m) span, with foundations 25 feet (7.6 m) deep. The north end of the viaduct is 13 feet (4.0 m) higher in elevation than the south end. 1.5 million bricks were used in the construction and some of the limestone blocks weighed 8 tons each.

It was designed by the engineer John Sydney Crossley. The first stone was laid on 12 October 1870 and the last in 1874. One thousand Navvies building the viaduct established shanty towns on the moors for themselves and their families. They named the towns after victories of the Crimean War, sarcastically for posh districts of London, and Biblical names. There were smallpox epidemics and deaths from industrial accidents; meaning that the church graveyard at Chapel-le-Dale had to be extended. One hundred navvies were killed during the construction of the viaduct.

In 1964, several brand new cars being carried on a freight train that was crossing the viaduct were blown off the wagons they were being carried upon and landed on the ground by the viaduct.

It is the longest and most famous viaduct on the Settle-Carlisle Railway. Ribblehead railway station is located less than half a mile to the south of the viaduct. Just to the north of it is the Blea Moor Tunnel, the longest tunnel on the Settle-Carlisle Line. It is located near the foot of the mountain of Whernside. The viaduct is curved, and so may be seen by passengers on the train.

The Settle-Carlisle line is one of three north-south main lines; along with the West Coast Main Line through Penrith and the East Coast Main Line via Newcastle. British Rail attempted to close the line in the 1980s, citing the reason that the viaduct was unsafe and would be expensive to repair. A partial solution was to single the line across the viaduct in 1985, preventing two trains from crossing simultaneously. The closure proposals generated tremendous protest and were eventually retracted. The viaduct, along with the rest of the line, was repaired and maintained and there are no longer any plans to close it.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribblehead_Viaduct

Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Chapel le Dale (show map)

Taken on: April 20, 2013

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Camera: Sony SLT-A77V, f/16.0, 91 sec, 10mm (=15mm), ISO 50 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Sony SLT-A77V
Lens:	28-80mm F3.5-5.6
Aperture:	f/16.0
Exposure Time:	91
Focal Length:	10mm (35mm equivalent: 15mm)
ISO:	50
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
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White Balance:	Auto
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
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