Just a short walk from my home, the past meets the present. The piers of Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s timber railway viaduct built 1860 still stand beneath its stone successor built 1930s. Trains have been crossing the Kennall Valley here for 166 years.

A split view shows a historical black-and-white photo of a construction site with a partially built bridge on the left and a modern color photo of a completed arched stone viaduct in a wooded area on the right.