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
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1988
- Type
- Railway bridge
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 6 May 2021 to remove superfluous source details and reformat the text to current standards
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SOWERBY BRIDGE FALL LANE Railway Bridge
II Railway bridge. c1840, parapet rebuilt. By George Stephenson. For the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company. Rock-faced stone. The bridge rises to the southern bank. Three tall segmental arches with voussoirs aligned to courses. Stepped canted pilaster buttresses. Ashlar band and tooled cyma-section band below parapet which has flat ashlar coping and pyramidal capstones above buttresses. At south end parapet continues as ramped wall. At north end parapet continues as wall terminating in pier as buttresses. The first part of the Manchester to Leeds Railway was opened as far as Sowerby Bridge in 1840; the section to Leeds; was opened subsequently.
Listing NGR: SE0689823519
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