22-Digswell viaduct

 22-Digswell viaduct

22-Digswell viaduct  -  embroidered by Peter Walters

Designed in 1850 by William Cubitt, it has 40 arches.  Around 1000 navvies were housed in a temporary camp at Digswell. And 5,000,000 red bricks were made on site at a brickfield nearby. Blue facing-bricks were added in the 1930's. As depicted, the Flying Scotsman used this line - as do many Scotsmen and women nowadays as they travel back North for the Christmas season !