Railway bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1988. Railway bridge.
Railway bridge
- WRENN ID
- muffled-remnant-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1988
- Type
- Railway bridge
- Address
- Railway bridge, Fall Lane
- OS grid reference
- SE 068 235
- Coordinates
- 53.70807, -1.89698
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This railway bridge, built around 1840, was designed by George Stephenson for the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company. It features rock-faced stone construction and rises to the southern bank. The bridge has three tall segmental arches with voussoirs aligned to the courses. It includes stepped canted pilaster buttresses, an ashlar band, and a tooled cyma-section band below the parapet, which has a flat ashlar coping and pyramidal capstones above the buttresses. At the south end, the parapet continues as a ramped wall, while at the north end, it extends as a wall that terminates in a pier, acting as buttresses. The first part of the Manchester to Leeds Railway was opened to Sowerby Bridge in 1840, with the section to Leeds completed later.
Local climate
Railway bridge 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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