Railway accommodation underbridge MVL3/26, Footway

The accommodation underbridge for the Huddersfield & Manchester Railway was built in the mid to late 1840s, with A S Jee as the lead engineer. It is made of rock-faced and ashlar sandstone, specifically shale grit, Kinderscout grit, and millstone grit.

This skew accommodation bridge carries a two-line railway track over a footpath that slopes steeply down towards the south. It features deep, segmental arches with stepped voussoirs and slightly taller keystones. The v-jointed voussoirs are made of picked ashlar with tooled margins, which 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 of coursed, rock-faced stone blocks. The bridge soffit consists of smaller, skew-coursed, dressed ashlar blocks. The arches are framed by slightly projecting piers of rock-faced stone. The ashlar parapets surround the archway and the piers, featuring a slightly projecting, square-moulded band with deeper panels above. The curved wing walls are made of coursed, rock-faced stone blocks topped with square-moulded ashlar coping.