Railway Bridge with Cutting Walls to North and South is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1993. Railway bridge.
Railway Bridge with Cutting Walls to North and South
- WRENN ID
- dusk-quoin-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1993
- Type
- Railway bridge
- Address
- Railway Bridge with Cutting Walls to North and South, Moor Street
- OS grid reference
- SD 415 081
- Coordinates
- 53.56693, -2.88371
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a public road bridge built around 1846-1848, which crosses the cutting of the Preston to Liverpool railway. It was constructed for the Liverpool, Ormskirk and Preston Railway Company and is made of rock-faced sandstone. The cutting walls on both the north and south sides are approximately 130 meters long and feature a slightly concave batter. These walls include a moulded band and parapets made of larger blocks with rounded coping that ramps up to meet the bridge. The bridge itself has a stilted segmental arch that springs from the cutting walls, with the bands and parapets continuing around from these walls. This structure forms a group with the Derby Street Railway Bridge located to the north.
Local climate
Railway Bridge with Cutting Walls to North and South sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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