Skew Arch Bridge
Research,  Viaduct

Skew

I decided to model Saddleworth Viaduct despite it being quite difficult.

First off it’s curved which is always a challenge. Then it’s got points on it. That’ll need a seperate post. Then it is long (about 2m scale even with compression, ie removing almost 1/2 the arches)

Apart from all that, there are 3 skew arches. With compression I got rid of one but the other two were key. One is over a main road and the other is over the Huddersfield canal.

Left is straight, right is skew

The last one is especially difficult given the multilevel canal that has a loch that drops UNDER the arch.

Note the arch brickwork
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