Railway underbridge MVL3/10, Manchester Road is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 2018. Railway underbridge.

Railway underbridge MVL3/10, Manchester Road

WRENN ID
slow-shingle-khaki
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tameside
Constituency
Stalybridge and Hyde MP: Jonathan Reynolds (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 March 2018
Type
Railway underbridge
OS grid reference
SD 973 005
Coordinates
53.50124, -2.04208
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The railway underbridge, built between 1845 and 1849 by A.S. Jee for the Huddersfield & Manchester railway, is made of buff sandstone. It carries the railway over Manchester Road at a slight angle, running north-south. The structure features a central span flanked by projecting piers, which are connected by in-line wing walls that gently curve outward at the ends and end in additional piers.

The segmental-arch span is supported by v-jointed rusticated abutments with canted corners and a projecting weathered impost band. The soffit, the walls beneath the span, and the upper stonework are constructed from regular-coursed quarry-faced stone. The voussoirs are also rusticated, although they are partially obscured by modern warning signs. The entire length of the wing walls and span is topped with a deep ashlar single-course parapet that features a projecting impost band.

Local climate

Railway underbridge MVL3/10, Manchester 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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