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  • Iron-2-Iron bike ride is back!

    Spurred on by a successful tour last year, the Iron to Iron cycle ride is going ‘back2back’! The national bike ride fundraiser for Friends of Bennerley Viaduct kicks off on Sunday 13th September and this time the peloton is starting in the east. The intrepid cyclists plan to ride from Great Yarmouth to Bennerley Viaduct,…

  • Chips with everything

    Our hard-working team of volunteers have been busy making improvements to footpaths on and around the site. Completion of the visitor centre has allowed the vehicular route below the viaduct to be reopened, enabling us to take delivery of much-needed woodchip. Volunteers have been hard at work with wheelbarrows and rakes to reinstate the woodland…

  • Solstice draws the crowds

    An estimated 2000 people – the most believed to have ever been on the deck at one time – assembled on Bennerley Viaduct to view the partial eclipse of the sun on August 12th. Crowds converged on the deck of the viaduct to get a grandstand view of the celestial spectacle, setting up deck chairs…

  • Visitor centre opens to the public

    Bennerley Viaduct’s visitor centre and café was opened to the public on Saturday 18th July with an official ribbon-cutting ceremony hosted by Claire Ward, Mayor of the East Midlands Combined County Authority. The sunny weather provided pleasant conditions for members of the public, Friends of Bennerley Viaduct volunteers and a host of local politicians who…

  • Footbridge fundraising dinner at Great Northern Classics

    Vintage vehicles and the unique heritage of Bennerley Viaduct will come together on Friday 4th September at a fundraising dinner at Great Northern Classics to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the start of construction of Bennerley Viaduct. The event, which is tipped as ‘an unforgettable evening celebrating in the building where the Iron Giant was…

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