Abutments And Retaining Walls To Road Bridge Over Line To West And South Of Hexham Railway Station

The structure consists of the abutments and retaining walls for a road bridge over the Newcastle-Carlisle railway line, located to the west and south of Hexham Railway Station. Built in 1847 at the request of the local Turnpike Trust, it features coursed sandstone rubble with rockfaced piers placed at intervals. These piers extend over a rockfaced-and-margined band at roadbed level and continue as dressed-stone buttresses that end in flattened-pyramidal tops, just above the level of the slightly-chamfered parapet coping. The bridge abutments include projecting offset dressed-stone buttresses. Although the bridge itself has been replaced with modern riveted steel, an arched opening through the south-western arm provides access to open land to the west, and a cart ramp leads from the northern arm into fields to the north-west.