Railway Viaduct And Retaining Walls At Junction With Greengate

The railway viaduct and retaining walls at the junction with Greengate in Salford were built around 1840. They consist of two railway bridges and a linking retaining wall that forms the bridge abutments. The structure is made of ashlar and cast iron. The raking retaining wall is divided by rusticated piers into bays featuring archways with stressed voussoirs on Chapel Street, extending to Greengate. Above the cornice, the piers also separate the plain parapet. There is a low relief carved coat of arms of the City of Salford above the archway on the Greengate return. The wall supports the railway viaduct and connects the two bridges over Greengate and Chapel Street, serving as their abutments. The bridge decks are supported by transverse iron beams, with cast-iron parapets; the panels over Greengate are solid with simple moulded decoration, while those over Chapel Street feature traceried openwork.