The Cadishead Viaduct is a disused railway viaduct of multi-lattice girder construction. It was built in 1892 by the CLC to clear the newly built Manchester Ship Canal

Manchester Ship Canal

The Manchester Ship Canal is a river navigation 36 miles long in the North West of England. Starting at the Mersey Estuary near Liverpool, it generally follows the original routes of the rivers Mersey and Irwell through the historic counties of Cheshire and Lancashire. Several sets of locks lift...

 to carry the new deviation of the Glazebrook

Glazebrook

Glazebrook is a village on the very eastern edge of the Warrington conurbation.It has a small housing estate, a post office and Glazebrook railway station which marks the westernmost boundary of the GMPTE....

 to Woodley Main Line. The centre span is 120 feet (36.6 m) long, and the clearance is 75 feet (22.9 m).

It opened to freight on 27 February 1893 and to passenger traffic on 29 May 1893.

Following the withdrawal of passenger services in 1964, the line became freight only and when expensive repairs to the viaduct were needed the early 1980s British Rail

British Rail

British Railways , which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the operator of most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the "Big Four" British railway companies and lasted until the gradual privatisation of British Rail, in stages...

 closed the viaduct and the preceding line towards Glazebrook.

It is now blocked with containers on each end due to youths using it for anti social behaviour and to stop people walking across it as the deck of the viaduct is in a very bad state with major corrosion setting in on the soffit

Soffit

Soffit , in architecture, describes the underside of any construction element...

s and trough decking of the major steel span of the viaduct.