Railway Bridge C.400 Metres East Of Former Hagger Leases Station is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. Bridge.
Railway Bridge C.400 Metres East Of Former Hagger Leases Station
- WRENN ID
- secret-cupola-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Country
- England
- Type
- Bridge
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
COCKFIELD HAGGER LEASES NZ 12 SW NZ 118256 4/8 Railway bridge c.400 metres east of former Hagger Leases station
GV II
Bridge over River Gaunless. Dated 1830 for Stockton and Darlington railway by William Storey; date panel names builder James Wilson of Pontefract. Grit sandstone, coursed and squared with tooled ashlar dressings. Skew plan at angle of 270 with river. Low segmental arch with chamfered voussoirs and wider-arched fall roll-moulded dripstring; this merges with similar string at rail-bed level. Parapets sweep out to round piers and have chamfered coping continuous with top bands of piers, which have low ogee-domed coping. Moulded rectangular inscription panel on north face. One of the earliest surviving skew arches, which were becoming a necessary part of railway engineering.
Source: W.W. Tomlinson History of The North Eastern Railway, 1914; 2nd ed. K. Hoole,Newton Abbott 1967, pp 185-6.
Listing NGR: NZ1176925614
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