Tees Railway Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Darlington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1988. Railway bridge. 1 related planning application.
Tees Railway Bridge
- WRENN ID
- blind-paling-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Darlington
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1988
- Type
- Railway bridge
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NZ 20 NE 291092 10/102
HURWORTH NORTHALLERTON ROAD (East side, off) Tees Railway Bridge
II
Railway viaduct carrying 2 tracks over River Tees. 1838-41, designed by Henry Welsh for the Great North of England Railway Company. Sandstone ashlar. About 100 metres long. Both faces similar. 4 segmental skew arches on slightly-battered piers which have projecting low rounded cutwaters with shallow-domed tops. Sunk decorative panels with roll-moulded borders on faces; chamfered impost bands. Narrower section of wall breaks forward above each pier and has a similar sunk panel with dropped keystone. Arch tunnels, voussoirs and spandrels have chamfered rustication. Flat-coped horizontal parapet, defined by 2 stepped bands at track level, breaks forward above piers to form rectangular-plan pedestrian refuges, some now destroyed. Parapet end piers have low pyramidal caps. Late C20 parapet railings. Rendered embankment-retaining walls.
(K. Hoole, A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain, Vol. 4, The North-East, 1965).
Listing NGR: NZ2908509207
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