noun
definition
A bridge with several spans that carries road or rail traffic over a valley or other obstacles.
Examples of viaducts in a Sentence
The amount of steel used was 38,000 tons exclusive of approach viaducts.
The anchor ties are connected to girders embedded in large concrete blocks in the foundations of the approach viaducts.
It is crossed by several bridges - including the Abercorn, St James's and the Abbey Bridges - and two railway viaducts.
At the opposite end, the viaducts are further apart where they hit the southern embankment.
My client is involved in major projects in the UK include roadworks, bridges, viaducts, embankments, tunnels with its.
Before then a sequence of six tributary burns draining the moors to the west of the river had to be crossed by stone viaducts.
Wallace was also responsible for the nearby concrete viaducts which, along with the bridges, forms part of the Bleach Green railroad line.
The Falmouth branch was the last GWR line to have its timber viaducts replaced, this work taking place during the 1930s.
When, however, a company desires to construct a line on a commercial scale, to acquire land compulsorily, to divert rivers and streams, to cross roads either on the level or by means of bridges, to pass near houses, to build tunnels or viaducts, and to execute all the other works incidental to a.
To the two viaducts across the valley of the Cuyahoga river were added three others, of which the most noteworthy is the High Level bridge, connecting Superior avenue on the east with Detroit avenue on the west.
The river is spanned with bridges, and its valley by two viaducts, the larger of which (completed in 1878 at a cost of more than $ 2,000,000), 3 211 ft.
This railway, which was completed in 1854, is the oldest of the great continental mountain railways, and is remarkable for its numerous and long tunnels, its viaducts and galleries.
Long bridges of several spans are often termed " viaducts," and bridges carrying canals are termed " aqueducts," though this term is sometimes used for waterways which have no bridge structure.
The double bridge of Cernavoda, with the viaducts leading to it, stretches for 122 m.