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==History==
The viaduct was built for the [[London and Birmingham Railway]], whose chief engineer was [[Robert Stephenson]]. It opened with the line in 1838. The viaduct sandwiches Lower Weedon between the railway and the canal.<ref name="Biddle" /> This stretch of railway, including the viaduct, is little altered since it was built. South of [[Roade Cutting]], the line was quadrupled in the 1880s. Stephenson originally bypassed [[Northampton]], but the [[Northampton loop]] (opened in 1881) acts as the second pair of tracks between the cutting and {{rws|Rugby}}, which negated the need for substantial modification.<ref name="landscape" />
The viaduct was one of the features illustrated by [[John Cooke Bourne]] in his series of lithographs published to mark the opening of the London and Birmingham Railway. Bourne shows the viaduct separating the village from green areas to the east, including the local churchyard which is now the opposite side of the viaduct from the church. Bourne's vantage point was the canal embankemnt.<ref>Thompson, p. 51.</ref>
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