Railway overbridge MVL3/28, Oldham Road

Railway overbridge for the Huddersfield & Manchester Railway. Mid-late 1840s by A S Jee.

MATERIALS: rock-faced and ashlar sandstone (shale grit/Kinderscout grit/millstone grit).

DESCRIPTION: the skew overbridge is located on the north-east side of Greenfield Station and carries Oldham Road over the two-line track below. The bridge has segmental arches with stepped voussoirs and slightly taller keystones. The v-jointed voussoirs are of picked ashlar with tooled margins. They spring from an ashlar impost band with similarly detailed ashlar quoins to the bridge abutments, which are otherwise constructed of coursed, rock-faced stone blocks, as are the spandrels. The bridge soffit is constructed of skew-coursed, rock-faced stone blocks. The bridge arches are framed by slightly projecting piers of rock-faced stone, the rows coursing through to the wing walls, which are continued a considerable distance round the inner curves of the road on each side. The bridge, piers, and wing walls have parapets of coursed, rock-faced stone blocks with square-moulded stone coping and a lower string course of two square-moulded bands. At the west end of the southern parapet is a former opening, now blocked.