Trent Viaducts are railway bridges which carry the Midland Mainline

Midland Mainline

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 over the River Trent

River Trent

The River Trent is one of the major rivers of England. Its source is in Staffordshire on the southern edge of Biddulph Moor. It flows through the Midlands until it joins the River Ouse at Trent Falls to form the Humber Estuary, which empties into the North Sea below Hull and Immingham.The Trent...

 between Derbyshire

Derbyshire

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 and Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire

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Originally a single bridge, it was built by the engineer Charles Blacker Vignoles

Charles Blacker Vignoles

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 for the Midland Counties Railway

Midland Counties Railway

The Midland Counties Railway was a railway company in the United Kingdom which existed between 1832 and 1844, connecting Nottingham, Leicester and Derby with Rugby and thence, via the London and Birmingham Railway, to London. The MCR system connected with the North Midland Railway and the...

 in 1839.

The Viaduct was rebuilt in 1901 when a second crossing was added by the Midland Railway

Midland Railway

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 to carry the high-level goods line from Toton. The rebuilding included the removal of the cast iron spans supplied by the Butterley Company

Butterley Company

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On the Midland Railway System Maps of 1918, the bridges are identified as bridges 27 and 27a.

Just south of the viaducts are twin tunnels through Red Hill.