Railway bridge

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.