Railway overbridge MVL3/28, Oldham Road is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 2018. Railway overbridge.
Railway overbridge MVL3/28, Oldham Road
- WRENN ID
- gentle-marble-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth MP: Debbie Abrahams (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 2018
- Type
- Railway overbridge
- OS grid reference
- SD 992 047
- Coordinates
- 53.53922, -2.0135
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The railway overbridge for the Huddersfield & Manchester Railway was built in the mid to late 1840s by A S Jee. It is located on the north-east side of Greenfield Station and carries Oldham Road over the two-line track below.
The bridge features segmental arches with stepped voussoirs and slightly taller keystones. The v-jointed voussoirs are made of picked ashlar with tooled margins, and they spring from an ashlar impost band. The bridge abutments have similarly detailed ashlar quoins, while the rest of the abutments and the spandrels are constructed from coursed, rock-faced stone blocks. The soffit of the bridge is made of skew-coursed, rock-faced stone blocks.
The arches are framed by slightly projecting piers of rock-faced stone, with the stone coursing continuing through to the wing walls. These wing walls extend a considerable distance around the inner curves of the road on each side. The bridge, piers, and wing walls are topped with parapets made of coursed, rock-faced stone blocks, featuring square-moulded stone coping and a lower string course of two square-moulded bands. At the west end of the southern parapet, there is a former opening that is now blocked.
Local climate
Railway overbridge MVL3/28, Oldham Road sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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