Railway underbridge MVL3/25, Oaklands Road

The Railway underbridge for the Huddersfield & Manchester Railway was built in the mid to late 1840s by A S Jee. It is located on the east side of the rural village of Grasscroft. This skew, girder bridge carries a two-track railway line over a bend in the road below.

The bridge features angled abutments with semi-octagonal piers made of squared, rusticated stone blocks that have chamfered edges to highlight the joints. These piers rise to track level, where there is an ashlar band, above which are slightly narrower octagonal parapet piers. The parapet piers are constructed from picked ashlar blocks with tooled margins and deep horizontal joints. The stonework of the abutments extends into gently curving and angled wing walls that have square-moulded ashlar coping, terminating in octagonal piers.

The bridge's parapet balustrades are made of cast iron panels featuring a relief pattern of closely spaced Gothic arcading. These balustrades are supported by deep cast-iron fascia beams adorned with small relief flower rivets. The bridge deck consists of two separate spans with riveted wrought-iron or steel beams that carry transverse joists and riveted iron plate jack arches.